From 414264f959cf46f49f974b3510400e12ac3624a6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kay Sievers Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 21:08:57 +0100 Subject: Driver core: add name to device_type If "name" of a device_type is specified, the uevent will contain the device_type name in the DEVTYPE variable. This helps userspace to distingiush between different types of devices, belonging to the same subsystem. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- include/linux/device.h | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/linux/device.h') diff --git a/include/linux/device.h b/include/linux/device.h index 3b64fdecd041..7f63d4de5c4d 100644 --- a/include/linux/device.h +++ b/include/linux/device.h @@ -331,7 +331,17 @@ extern struct class_device *class_device_create(struct class *cls, __attribute__((format(printf,5,6))); extern void class_device_destroy(struct class *cls, dev_t devt); +/* + * The type of device, "struct device" is embedded in. A class + * or bus can contain devices of different types + * like "partitions" and "disks", "mouse" and "event". + * This identifies the device type and carries type-specific + * information, equivalent to the kobj_type of a kobject. + * If "name" is specified, the uevent will contain it in + * the DEVTYPE variable. + */ struct device_type { + const char *name; struct attribute_group **groups; int (*uevent)(struct device *dev, char **envp, int num_envp, char *buffer, int buffer_size); -- cgit v1.2.3