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author | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2008-12-16 21:23:36 +0100 |
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committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2009-01-06 19:44:32 +0100 |
commit | 2831fe6f9cc4e16c103504ee09a47a084297c0f3 (patch) | |
tree | 36869b2a4ad9dce0fb0812f44355233e907afa95 /drivers/base/base.h | |
parent | dynamic_printk: reduce one level of indentation (diff) | |
download | linux-2831fe6f9cc4e16c103504ee09a47a084297c0f3.tar.xz linux-2831fe6f9cc4e16c103504ee09a47a084297c0f3.zip |
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 <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/base/base.h')
-rw-r--r-- | drivers/base/base.h | 12 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/base/base.h b/drivers/base/base.h index 0a5f055dffba..6b20809b5fd4 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); |