drivers/base: add bus for System-on-Chip devices

Traditionally, any System-on-Chip based platform creates a flat list
of platform_devices directly under /sys/devices/platform.

In order to give these some better structure, this introduces a new
bus type for soc_devices that are registered with the new
soc_device_register() function.  All devices that are on the same
chip should then be registered as child devices of the soc device.

The soc bus also exports a few standardised device attributes which
allow user space to query the specific type of soc.

Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 37 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/sys_soc.h b/include/linux/sys_soc.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..2739ccb69571
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/linux/sys_soc.h
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (C) ST-Ericsson SA 2011
+ * Author: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org> for ST-Ericsson.
+ * License terms:  GNU General Public License (GPL), version 2
+ */
+#ifndef __SOC_BUS_H
+#define __SOC_BUS_H
+
+#include <linux/device.h>
+
+struct soc_device_attribute {
+        const char *machine;
+        const char *family;
+        const char *revision;
+        const char *soc_id;
+};
+
+/**
+ * soc_device_register - register SoC as a device
+ * @soc_plat_dev_attr: Attributes passed from platform to be attributed to a SoC
+ */
+struct soc_device *soc_device_register(
+        struct soc_device_attribute *soc_plat_dev_attr);
+
+/**
+ * soc_device_unregister - unregister SoC device
+ * @dev: SoC device to be unregistered
+ */
+void soc_device_unregister(struct soc_device *soc_dev);
+
+/**
+ * soc_device_to_device - helper function to fetch struct device
+ * @soc: Previously registered SoC device container
+ */
+struct device *soc_device_to_device(struct soc_device *soc);
+
+#endif /* __SOC_BUS_H */