Driver Core: misc: add nodename support for misc devices.

This adds support for misc devices to report their requested nodename to
userspace.  It also updates a number of misc drivers to provide the
needed subdirectory and device name to be used for them.

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

2 files changed, 13 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c b/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
index e5d583c84e4f..fc93e2fc7c71 100644
--- a/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
+++ b/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
@@ -153,6 +153,7 @@ static const struct file_operations rng_chrdev_ops = {
 static struct miscdevice rng_miscdev = {
         .minor          = RNG_MISCDEV_MINOR,
         .name           = RNG_MODULE_NAME,
+        .devnode        = "hwrng",
         .fops           = &rng_chrdev_ops,
 };
 
diff --git a/drivers/char/misc.c b/drivers/char/misc.c
index a5e0db9d7662..62c99fa59e2b 100644
--- a/drivers/char/misc.c
+++ b/drivers/char/misc.c
@@ -168,7 +168,6 @@ static const struct file_operations misc_fops = {
         .open           = misc_open,
 };
 
-
 /**
  *      misc_register   -       register a miscellaneous device
  *      @misc: device structure
@@ -217,8 +216,8 @@ int misc_register(struct miscdevice * misc)
                 misc_minors[misc->minor >> 3] |= 1 << (misc->minor & 7);
         dev = MKDEV(MISC_MAJOR, misc->minor);
 
-        misc->this_device = device_create(misc_class, misc->parent, dev, NULL,
-                                          "%s", misc->name);
+        misc->this_device = device_create(misc_class, misc->parent, dev,
+                                          misc, "%s", misc->name);
         if (IS_ERR(misc->this_device)) {
                 err = PTR_ERR(misc->this_device);
                 goto out;
@@ -264,6 +263,15 @@ int misc_deregister(struct miscdevice *misc)
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(misc_register);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(misc_deregister);
 
+static char *misc_nodename(struct device *dev)
+{
+        struct miscdevice *c = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
+
+        if (c->devnode)
+                return kstrdup(c->devnode, GFP_KERNEL);
+        return NULL;
+}
+
 static int __init misc_init(void)
 {
         int err;
@@ -279,6 +287,7 @@ static int __init misc_init(void)
         err = -EIO;
         if (register_chrdev(MISC_MAJOR,"misc",&misc_fops))
                 goto fail_printk;
+        misc_class->nodename = misc_nodename;
         return 0;
 
 fail_printk: