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authorDmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>2009-10-12 20:17:41 -0700
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2009-10-30 14:59:51 -0700
commit1a6f2a7512021ceae3c4201c7aab07f032e9ce91 (patch)
tree03fdca9848003b3a6fda57113b3e750ec1e22a55 /include/linux
parent39acbc12affcaa23ef1d887ba3d197baca8e6e47 (diff)
Driver core: allow certain drivers prohibit bind/unbind via sysfs
Platform drivers registered via platform_driver_probe() can be bound to devices only once, upon registration, because discard their probe() routines to save memory. Unbinding the driver through sysfs 'unbind' leaves the device stranded and confuses users so let's not create bind and unbind attributes for such drivers. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru> Cc: Éric Piel <eric.piel@tremplin-utc.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/device.h4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/device.h b/include/linux/device.h
index aca31bf7d8e..2ea3e492181 100644
--- a/include/linux/device.h
+++ b/include/linux/device.h
@@ -124,7 +124,9 @@ struct device_driver {
struct bus_type *bus;
struct module *owner;
- const char *mod_name; /* used for built-in modules */
+ const char *mod_name; /* used for built-in modules */
+
+ bool suppress_bind_attrs; /* disables bind/unbind via sysfs */
int (*probe) (struct device *dev);
int (*remove) (struct device *dev);