Driver core: move the static kobject out of struct driver

This patch removes the kobject, and a few other driver-core-only fields
out of struct driver and into the driver core only.  Now drivers can be
safely create on the stack or statically (like they currently are.)

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/base/base.h b/drivers/base/base.h
index 05472360f6a2..3b0f395552db 100644
--- a/drivers/base/base.h
+++ b/drivers/base/base.h
@@ -27,6 +27,14 @@ struct bus_type_private {
         struct bus_type *bus;
 };
 
+struct driver_private {
+        struct kobject kobj;
+        struct klist klist_devices;
+        struct klist_node knode_bus;
+        struct module_kobject *mkobj;
+        struct device_driver *driver;
+};
+#define to_driver(obj) container_of(obj, struct driver_private, kobj)
 
 /* initialisation functions */
 extern int devices_init(void);