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>
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Greg Kroah-Hartman
2008-12-16 12:23:36 -08:00
parent b23530ebc3
commit fb069a5d13
3 changed files with 24 additions and 0 deletions

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@@ -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);