PNP: add pnp_alloc_dev()

Add pnp_alloc_dev() to allocate a struct pnp_dev and fill in the
protocol, instance number, and initial PNP ID.  Now it is always
valid to use dev_printk() on any pnp_dev pointer.

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Acked-By: Rene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/pnp/base.h b/drivers/pnp/base.h
index 9af0a6c7dd41..ff435bd1ca18 100644
--- a/drivers/pnp/base.h
+++ b/drivers/pnp/base.h
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ extern spinlock_t pnp_lock;
 void *pnp_alloc(long size);
 #define PNP_EISA_ID_MASK 0x7fffffff
 void pnp_eisa_id_to_string(u32 id, char *str);
+struct pnp_dev *pnp_alloc_dev(struct pnp_protocol *, int id, char *pnpid);
 struct pnp_id *pnp_add_id(struct pnp_dev *dev, char *id);
 int pnp_interface_attach_device(struct pnp_dev *dev);
 void pnp_fixup_device(struct pnp_dev *dev);