Subject: [PATCH] [acpi driver model] Add interface for adding/removing drivers

- Create drivers/acpi/drivers/core/driver.c.
- Implement simple acpi_driver_{,un}register().

Signed-off-by: Patrick Mochel <mochel@linux.intel.com>

---

 drivers/acpi/drivers/core/Makefile |    2 +
 drivers/acpi/drivers/core/driver.c |   57 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 58 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 drivers/acpi/drivers/core/driver.c

applies-to: d75d0868b6aaabc084dbc6ca347f62b7643f5624
a35d91408274c553bfd741caaa9939ddf583cc9f
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/drivers/core/Makefile b/drivers/acpi/drivers/core/Makefile
index f533f7c..cd7c779 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/drivers/core/Makefile
+++ b/drivers/acpi/drivers/core/Makefile
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 
-obj-y	:=	bus.o device.o
+obj-y	:=	bus.o device.o driver.o
 obj-y	+=	lib.o
 
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/drivers/core/driver.c b/drivers/acpi/drivers/core/driver.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6e37faa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/drivers/acpi/drivers/core/driver.c
@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+/***
+ *
+ *	drivers/acpi/drivers/core/driver.c - ACPI driver management
+ *
+ *	Copyright (C) 2006 Patrick Mochel
+ *
+ *	This file is released under the GPLv2.
+ *
+ *
+ *	This file contains the code to manage the drivers for ACPI
+ *	devices. It contains the registration/unregistration interface,
+ *	as well as all of the pass-through methods that the Linux 
+ *	driver core will call (and that are forwarded on to the ACPI
+ *	drivers).
+ */
+
+#include "core.h"
+
+
+/**
+ *	acpi_driver_register - Register an ACPI driver
+ *	@drv:	The ACPI driver to register
+ *
+ *	This fills in some of the necessary fields (mainly
+ *	the methods listed above) and registers the driver
+ *	with the Linux driver core.
+ */
+
+int acpi_driver_register(struct acpi_device_driver * drv)
+{
+
+	dbg("Registering driver %s", drv->d_drv.name);
+
+	drv->d_drv.bus = &acpi_bus;
+
+	/*
+	 * Register driver with core
+	 */
+	return driver_register(&drv->d_drv);
+}
+
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(acpi_driver_register);
+
+
+/**
+ *	acpi_driver_unregister - Remove a driver
+ *	@drv:	The ACPI driver to unregister.
+ *
+ */
+
+void acpi_driver_unregister(struct acpi_device_driver * drv)
+{
+
+}
+
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(acpi_driver_unregister);
+
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