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authorPatrick Mochel <mochel@osdl.org>2002-09-23 01:19:20 -0700
committerPatrick Mochel <mochel@osdl.org>2002-09-23 01:19:20 -0700
commit8b755139164c05fcff5e56617d2fa9886fea1825 (patch)
treeed799f52ca7cdc216bb36510a726a6e58664d5cd /include/linux/vmalloc.h
parent94eda0969bf8f7ea58872e5c1069e2c0b203e877 (diff)
Driver model: improve support for system devices.
- Create struct sys_device to describe system-level devices (CPUs, PICs, etc.). This structure includes a 'name' and 'id' field for drivers to fill in with a simple canonical name (like 'pic' or 'floppy') and the id of the device relative to its discovery in the system (it's enumerated value). The core then constructs the bus_id for the device from these, giving them meaningful names when exporting them to userspace: # tree -d /sys/root/sys/ /sys/root/sys/ |-- pic0 `-- rtc0 - Replace int register_sys_device(struct device * dev); with int sys_device_register(struct sys_device * sysdev); - Fixup the users of the API. - Add a system_bus_type for devices to associate themselves with. This provides a bus/system/ directory in driverfs that looks like: # tree -d /sys/bus/system/ /sys/bus/system/ |-- devices | |-- pic0 -> ../../../root/sys/pic0 | `-- rtc0 -> ../../../root/sys/rtc0 `-- drivers `-- pic
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