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driver core: create a private portion of struct device
authorGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Tue, 16 Dec 2008 20:23:36 +0000 (12:23 -0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Tue, 6 Jan 2009 18:44:32 +0000 (10:44 -0800)
This is to be used to move things out of struct device that no code
outside of the driver core should ever touch.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
drivers/base/base.h
drivers/base/core.c
include/linux/device.h

index 0a5f055dffbaa389fd8f4b2f0bfe81fe5a352241..6b20809b5fd44aff77cd2cd87657efc28430721d 100644 (file)
@@ -63,6 +63,18 @@ struct class_private {
 #define to_class(obj)  \
        container_of(obj, struct class_private, class_subsys.kobj)
 
+/**
+ * struct device_private - structure to hold the private to the driver core portions of the device structure.
+ *
+ * @device - pointer back to the struct class that this structure is
+ * associated with.
+ *
+ * Nothing outside of the driver core should ever touch these fields.
+ */
+struct device_private {
+       struct device *device;
+};
+
 /* initialisation functions */
 extern int devices_init(void);
 extern int buses_init(void);
index 14aa2b6953c9d29e02fc8549548d99201c7cdcad..6657787e64f8064453bcac84e19ff743caae07f9 100644 (file)
@@ -109,6 +109,7 @@ static struct sysfs_ops dev_sysfs_ops = {
 static void device_release(struct kobject *kobj)
 {
        struct device *dev = to_dev(kobj);
+       struct device_private *p = dev->p;
 
        if (dev->release)
                dev->release(dev);
@@ -120,6 +121,7 @@ static void device_release(struct kobject *kobj)
                WARN(1, KERN_ERR "Device '%s' does not have a release() "
                        "function, it is broken and must be fixed.\n",
                        dev_name(dev));
+       kfree(p);
 }
 
 static struct kobj_type device_ktype = {
@@ -536,6 +538,12 @@ static void klist_children_put(struct klist_node *n)
  */
 void device_initialize(struct device *dev)
 {
+       dev->p = kzalloc(sizeof(*dev->p), GFP_KERNEL);
+       if (!dev->p) {
+               WARN_ON(1);
+               return;
+       }
+       dev->p->device = dev;
        dev->kobj.kset = devices_kset;
        kobject_init(&dev->kobj, &device_ktype);
        klist_init(&dev->klist_children, klist_children_get,
index 4e14fad414302c674fc13cbf88387e4e623e2ec5..d6d34084fd3764c207e28ef8ded81b5adf1a9d5b 100644 (file)
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
 #define BUS_ID_SIZE            20
 
 struct device;
+struct device_private;
 struct device_driver;
 struct driver_private;
 struct class;
@@ -371,6 +372,8 @@ struct device {
        struct klist_node       knode_bus;
        struct device           *parent;
 
+       struct device_private   *p;
+
        struct kobject kobj;
        char    bus_id[BUS_ID_SIZE];    /* position on parent bus */
        unsigned                uevent_suppress:1;