Driver core: create devices/virtual/ tree

This change creates a devices/virtual/CLASS_NAME tree for struct devices
that belong to a class, yet do not have a "real" struct device for a
parent.  It automatically creates the directories on the fly as needed.


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

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/device.h b/include/linux/device.h
index 3400e09bf458..bbb0d6b5d232 100644
--- a/include/linux/device.h
+++ b/include/linux/device.h
@@ -149,6 +149,8 @@ struct class {
         struct list_head        interfaces;
         struct semaphore        sem;    /* locks both the children and interfaces lists */
 
+        struct kobject          *virtual_dir;
+
         struct class_attribute          * class_attrs;
         struct class_device_attribute   * class_dev_attrs;
         struct device_attribute         * dev_attrs;
@@ -291,7 +293,6 @@ 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);
 
-
 /* interface for exporting device attributes */
 struct device_attribute {
         struct attribute        attr;
@@ -400,6 +401,8 @@ extern struct device *device_create(struct class *cls, struct device *parent,
                                     __attribute__((format(printf,4,5)));
 extern void device_destroy(struct class *cls, dev_t devt);
 
+extern int virtual_device_parent(struct device *dev);
+
 /*
  * Platform "fixup" functions - allow the platform to have their say
  * about devices and actions that the general device layer doesn't