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authorGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2008-12-16 12:23:36 -0800
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2009-03-24 16:38:25 -0700
commitfb069a5d132fb926ed17af3211a114ac7cf27d7a (patch)
treec104d9df7c83c27e3785265fb7412fd9332bc10a /drivers/base/base.h
parentb23530ebc339c4092ae2c9f37341a5398fea8b89 (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/base.h')
-rw-r--r--drivers/base/base.h12
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/base/base.h b/drivers/base/base.h
index ca2b0376685..62a2cb5e178 100644
--- a/drivers/base/base.h
+++ b/drivers/base/base.h
@@ -63,6 +63,18 @@ struct class_private {
#define to_class(obj) \
container_of(obj, struct class_private, class_subsys.kobj)
+/**
+ * struct device_private - structure to hold the private to the driver core portions of the device structure.
+ *
+ * @device - pointer back to the struct class that this structure is
+ * associated with.
+ *
+ * Nothing outside of the driver core should ever touch these fields.
+ */
+struct device_private {
+ struct device *device;
+};
+
/* initialisation functions */
extern int devices_init(void);
extern int buses_init(void);