From kay.sievers@vrfy.org Thu Mar 15 00:10:06 2007 From: Kay Sievers Subject: Driver core: add name to device_type Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 21:08:57 +0100 Message-Id: <1173730137.7574.2.camel@pim.off.vrfy.org> From: Kay Sievers 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 --- drivers/base/core.c | 5 +++++ include/linux/device.h | 10 ++++++++++ 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/base/core.c +++ b/drivers/base/core.c @@ -157,6 +157,11 @@ static int dev_uevent(struct kset *kset, "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, --- a/include/linux/device.h +++ b/include/linux/device.h @@ -331,7 +331,17 @@ extern struct class_device *class_device __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);