From fb069a5d132fb926ed17af3211a114ac7cf27d7a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 12:23:36 -0800 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/base/base.h | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) (limited to 'drivers/base/base.h') diff --git a/drivers/base/base.h b/drivers/base/base.h index ca2b0376685b..62a2cb5e1780 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); -- cgit v1.2.3