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authorKay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>2007-03-12 16:08:57 -0400
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2007-04-27 13:57:28 -0400
commit414264f959cf46f49f974b3510400e12ac3624a6 (patch)
treeead43994761620cbf7cb22525610627786562098 /drivers
parent621a1672f7377e08a942f205d6742d8af1292aab (diff)
Driver core: add name to device_type
If "name" of a device_type is specified, the uevent will contain the device_type name in the DEVTYPE variable. This helps userspace to distingiush between different types of devices, belonging to the same subsystem. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/base/core.c5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c
index bb2cc37a4d43..bffb69e4bde2 100644
--- a/drivers/base/core.c
+++ b/drivers/base/core.c
@@ -157,6 +157,11 @@ static int dev_uevent(struct kset *kset, struct kobject *kobj, char **envp,
157 "MINOR=%u", MINOR(dev->devt)); 157 "MINOR=%u", MINOR(dev->devt));
158 } 158 }
159 159
160 if (dev->type && dev->type->name)
161 add_uevent_var(envp, num_envp, &i,
162 buffer, buffer_size, &length,
163 "DEVTYPE=%s", dev->type->name);
164
160 if (dev->driver) 165 if (dev->driver)
161 add_uevent_var(envp, num_envp, &i, 166 add_uevent_var(envp, num_envp, &i,
162 buffer, buffer_size, &length, 167 buffer, buffer_size, &length,