[PATCH 06/46] Driver core: add name to device_type

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2007-04-27T19:11:10Z

From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>

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 <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
---
drivers/base/core.c | 5 +++++
include/linux/device.h | 10 ++++++++++
2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c
index bb2cc37..bffb69e 100644
--- a/drivers/base/core.c
+++ b/drivers/base/core.c
@@ -157,6 +157,11 @@ static int dev_uevent(struct kset *kset, struct kobject *kobj, char **envp,
"MINOR=%u", MINOR(dev->devt));
}

+ if (dev->type && dev->type->name)
+ add_uevent_var(envp, num_envp, &i,
+ buffer, buffer_size, &length,
+ "DEVTYPE=%s", dev->type->name);
+
if (dev->driver)
add_uevent_var(envp, num_envp, &i,
buffer, buffer_size, &length,
diff --git a/include/linux/device.h b/include/linux/device.h
index 3b64fde..7f63d4d 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);
--
1.5.1.2