Driver core: create devices/virtual/ tree

This change creates a devices/virtual/CLASS_NAME tree for struct devices
that belong to a class, yet do not have a "real" struct device for a
parent.  It automatically creates the directories on the fly as needed.


Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

2 files changed, 24 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/base/class.c b/drivers/base/class.c
index e078bc21d52e..cbdf47c0c60d 100644
--- a/drivers/base/class.c
+++ b/drivers/base/class.c
@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@
 #include <linux/slab.h>
 #include "base.h"
 
+extern struct subsystem devices_subsys;
+
 #define to_class_attr(_attr) container_of(_attr, struct class_attribute, attr)
 #define to_class(obj) container_of(obj, struct class, subsys.kset.kobj)
 
@@ -878,7 +880,22 @@ void class_interface_unregister(struct class_interface *class_intf)
 	class_put(parent);
 }
 
+int virtual_device_parent(struct device *dev)
+{
+	if (!dev->class)
+		return -ENODEV;
+
+	if (!dev->class->virtual_dir) {
+		static struct kobject *virtual_dir = NULL;
 
+		if (!virtual_dir)
+			virtual_dir = kobject_add_dir(&devices_subsys.kset.kobj, "virtual");
+		dev->class->virtual_dir = kobject_add_dir(virtual_dir, dev->class->name);
+	}
+
+	dev->kobj.parent = dev->class->virtual_dir;
+	return 0;
+}
 
 int __init classes_init(void)
 {
diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c
index 0db47561331e..e21a65fc043e 100644
--- a/drivers/base/core.c
+++ b/drivers/base/core.c
@@ -378,6 +378,13 @@ int device_add(struct device *dev)
 	if (!dev || !strlen(dev->bus_id))
 		goto Error;
 
+	/* if this is a class device, and has no parent, create one */
+	if ((dev->class) && (dev->parent == NULL)) {
+		error = virtual_device_parent(dev);
+		if (error)
+			goto Error;
+	}
+
 	parent = get_device(dev->parent);
 
 	pr_debug("DEV: registering device: ID = '%s'\n", dev->bus_id);