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| author | Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> | 2009-04-30 15:23:42 +0200 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2009-06-15 21:30:25 -0700 |
| commit | d405640539555b601e52f7d18f1f0b1345d18bf5 (patch) | |
| tree | 6a748c0acea0fa72c732d2f188e57153418395e0 /drivers/char/misc.c | |
| parent | 6fcf53acccf85b4b0d0260e66c692a341760f464 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-d405640539555b601e52f7d18f1f0b1345d18bf5.tar.gz lwn-d405640539555b601e52f7d18f1f0b1345d18bf5.zip | |
Driver Core: misc: add nodename support for misc devices.
This adds support for misc devices to report their requested nodename to
userspace. It also updates a number of misc drivers to provide the
needed subdirectory and device name to be used for them.
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char/misc.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/char/misc.c | 15 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/misc.c b/drivers/char/misc.c index a5e0db9d7662..62c99fa59e2b 100644 --- a/drivers/char/misc.c +++ b/drivers/char/misc.c @@ -168,7 +168,6 @@ static const struct file_operations misc_fops = { .open = misc_open, }; - /** * misc_register - register a miscellaneous device * @misc: device structure @@ -217,8 +216,8 @@ int misc_register(struct miscdevice * misc) misc_minors[misc->minor >> 3] |= 1 << (misc->minor & 7); dev = MKDEV(MISC_MAJOR, misc->minor); - misc->this_device = device_create(misc_class, misc->parent, dev, NULL, - "%s", misc->name); + misc->this_device = device_create(misc_class, misc->parent, dev, + misc, "%s", misc->name); if (IS_ERR(misc->this_device)) { err = PTR_ERR(misc->this_device); goto out; @@ -264,6 +263,15 @@ int misc_deregister(struct miscdevice *misc) EXPORT_SYMBOL(misc_register); EXPORT_SYMBOL(misc_deregister); +static char *misc_nodename(struct device *dev) +{ + struct miscdevice *c = dev_get_drvdata(dev); + + if (c->devnode) + return kstrdup(c->devnode, GFP_KERNEL); + return NULL; +} + static int __init misc_init(void) { int err; @@ -279,6 +287,7 @@ static int __init misc_init(void) err = -EIO; if (register_chrdev(MISC_MAJOR,"misc",&misc_fops)) goto fail_printk; + misc_class->nodename = misc_nodename; return 0; fail_printk: |