Driver core: add device_type to struct device

This allows us to add type specific attributes, uevent vars and
release funtions.

A subsystem can carry different types of devices like the "block"
subsys has disks and partitions. Both types create a different set
of attributes, but belong to the same subsystem.

This corresponds to the low level objects:
  kobject   -> device       (object/device data)
  kobj_type -> device_type  (type of object/device we are embedded in)
  kset      -> class/bus    (list of objects/devices of a subsystem)

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/device.h b/include/linux/device.h
index da7221913114..e1e164f81eea 100644
--- a/include/linux/device.h
+++ b/include/linux/device.h
@@ -328,6 +328,13 @@ extern struct class_device *class_device_create(struct class *cls,
 					__attribute__((format(printf,5,6)));
 extern void class_device_destroy(struct class *cls, dev_t devt);
 
+struct device_type {
+	struct device_attribute *attrs;
+	int (*uevent)(struct device *dev, char **envp, int num_envp,
+		      char *buffer, int buffer_size);
+	void (*release)(struct device *dev);
+};
+
 /* interface for exporting device attributes */
 struct device_attribute {
 	struct attribute	attr;
@@ -356,6 +363,7 @@ struct device {
 
 	struct kobject kobj;
 	char	bus_id[BUS_ID_SIZE];	/* position on parent bus */
+	struct device_type	*type;
 	unsigned		is_registered:1;
 	struct device_attribute uevent_attr;
 	struct device_attribute *devt_attr;