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| author | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2008-12-16 12:23:36 -0800 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2009-03-24 16:38:25 -0700 |
| commit | fb069a5d132fb926ed17af3211a114ac7cf27d7a (patch) | |
| tree | c104d9df7c83c27e3785265fb7412fd9332bc10a /drivers/base/core.c | |
| parent | b23530ebc339c4092ae2c9f37341a5398fea8b89 (diff) | |
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/core.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/base/core.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c index 059966b617f..16d85991010 100644 --- a/drivers/base/core.c +++ b/drivers/base/core.c @@ -109,6 +109,7 @@ static struct sysfs_ops dev_sysfs_ops = { static void device_release(struct kobject *kobj) { struct device *dev = to_dev(kobj); + struct device_private *p = dev->p; if (dev->release) dev->release(dev); @@ -120,6 +121,7 @@ static void device_release(struct kobject *kobj) WARN(1, KERN_ERR "Device '%s' does not have a release() " "function, it is broken and must be fixed.\n", dev_name(dev)); + kfree(p); } static struct kobj_type device_ktype = { @@ -859,6 +861,13 @@ int device_add(struct device *dev) if (!dev) goto done; + dev->p = kzalloc(sizeof(*dev->p), GFP_KERNEL); + if (!dev->p) { + error = -ENOMEM; + goto done; + } + dev->p->device = dev; + /* * for statically allocated devices, which should all be converted * some day, we need to initialize the name. We prevent reading back |