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| author | Patrick Mochel <mochel@osdl.org> | 2003-01-06 08:57:46 -0600 |
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| committer | Patrick Mochel <mochel@osdl.org> | 2003-01-06 08:57:46 -0600 |
| commit | c3016fe6abf9a2baf8accbe22ef964d506bd9e8a (patch) | |
| tree | 3e95559532c95a6e3e948e4f87a3accd4a3a60d5 /include/linux/device.h | |
| parent | 45cd2cfe8d04830d838cb348f7d181b877a63c49 (diff) | |
driver model: allow manual binding of devices to drivers.
This creates and exports device_bind_driver() and device_release_driver()
that allow a caller to manually bind a device to a driver. Apparantly, some
drivers use this functionality (like USB): a driver binds to other device
interfaces during the driver's probe() method call for the first interface.
Implementation is easy enough, since it simply involves renaming and exporting
the internal functions attach() and detach().
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/device.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/device.h | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/device.h b/include/linux/device.h index 998ca9a08299..f2e9b50cad58 100644 --- a/include/linux/device.h +++ b/include/linux/device.h @@ -306,6 +306,14 @@ extern void device_initialize(struct device * dev); extern int device_add(struct device * dev); extern void device_del(struct device * dev); +/* + * Manual binding of a device to driver. See drivers/base/bus.c + * for information on use. + */ +extern void device_bind_driver(struct device * dev); +extern void device_release_driver(struct device * dev); + + /* driverfs interface for exporting device attributes */ struct device_attribute { |