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| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/device.h | 10 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/device.h b/include/linux/device.h index 3b64fdecd04..7f63d4de5c4 100644 --- a/include/linux/device.h +++ b/include/linux/device.h @@ -331,7 +331,17 @@ extern struct class_device *class_device_create(struct class *cls, __attribute__((format(printf,5,6))); extern void class_device_destroy(struct class *cls, dev_t devt); +/* + * The type of device, "struct device" is embedded in. A class + * or bus can contain devices of different types + * like "partitions" and "disks", "mouse" and "event". + * This identifies the device type and carries type-specific + * information, equivalent to the kobj_type of a kobject. + * If "name" is specified, the uevent will contain it in + * the DEVTYPE variable. + */ struct device_type { + const char *name; struct attribute_group **groups; int (*uevent)(struct device *dev, char **envp, int num_envp, char *buffer, int buffer_size); |