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authorStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>2008-05-30 10:16:40 +1000
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2008-05-29 21:10:01 -0700
commit413c239fad68258157f903b3ffd9bfcc53f5e34b (patch)
tree7508df475d5f1ab505e27e98573953c1e394f0c6 /drivers/base
parent0a2ce2ffc358da96792d514c1024b72c52be9cc1 (diff)
driver-core: prepare for 2.6.27 api change by adding dev_set_name
Create the dev_set_name function now so that various subsystems can start changing over to it before other changes in 2.6.27 will make it compulsory. Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/base')
-rw-r--r--drivers/base/core.c15
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c
index 72eccae4904..422cfcad486 100644
--- a/drivers/base/core.c
+++ b/drivers/base/core.c
@@ -760,6 +760,21 @@ static void device_remove_class_symlinks(struct device *dev)
}
/**
+ * dev_set_name - set a device name
+ * @dev: device
+ */
+int dev_set_name(struct device *dev, const char *fmt, ...)
+{
+ va_list vargs;
+
+ va_start(vargs, fmt);
+ vsnprintf(dev->bus_id, sizeof(dev->bus_id), fmt, vargs);
+ va_end(vargs);
+ return 0;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(dev_set_name);
+
+/**
* device_add - add device to device hierarchy.
* @dev: device.
*