From fb069a5d132fb926ed17af3211a114ac7cf27d7a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 12:23:36 -0800 Subject: driver core: create a private portion of struct device 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 Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/base/base.h | 12 ++++++++++++ drivers/base/core.c | 9 +++++++++ 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+) (limited to 'drivers') diff --git a/drivers/base/base.h b/drivers/base/base.h index ca2b0376685..62a2cb5e178 100644 --- a/drivers/base/base.h +++ b/drivers/base/base.h @@ -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); diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c index 059966b617f..16d85991010 100644 --- a/drivers/base/core.c +++ b/drivers/base/core.c @@ -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 = { @@ -859,6 +861,13 @@ int device_add(struct device *dev) if (!dev) goto done; + dev->p = kzalloc(sizeof(*dev->p), GFP_KERNEL); + if (!dev->p) { + error = -ENOMEM; + goto done; + } + dev->p->device = dev; + /* * for statically allocated devices, which should all be converted * some day, we need to initialize the name. We prevent reading back -- cgit v1.2.3