Driver Core: add nodename callbacks
This adds the nodename callback for struct class, struct device_type and
struct device, to allow drivers to send userspace hints on the device
name and subdirectory that should be used for it.
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>
diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c
index 4d59975..7ecb193 100644
--- a/drivers/base/core.c
+++ b/drivers/base/core.c
@@ -162,10 +162,18 @@
struct device *dev = to_dev(kobj);
int retval = 0;
- /* add the major/minor if present */
+ /* add device node properties if present */
if (MAJOR(dev->devt)) {
+ const char *tmp;
+ const char *name;
+
add_uevent_var(env, "MAJOR=%u", MAJOR(dev->devt));
add_uevent_var(env, "MINOR=%u", MINOR(dev->devt));
+ name = device_get_nodename(dev, &tmp);
+ if (name) {
+ add_uevent_var(env, "DEVNAME=%s", name);
+ kfree(tmp);
+ }
}
if (dev->type && dev->type->name)
@@ -1129,6 +1137,47 @@
}
/**
+ * device_get_nodename - path of device node file
+ * @dev: device
+ * @tmp: possibly allocated string
+ *
+ * Return the relative path of a possible device node.
+ * Non-default names may need to allocate a memory to compose
+ * a name. This memory is returned in tmp and needs to be
+ * freed by the caller.
+ */
+const char *device_get_nodename(struct device *dev, const char **tmp)
+{
+ char *s;
+
+ *tmp = NULL;
+
+ /* the device type may provide a specific name */
+ if (dev->type && dev->type->nodename)
+ *tmp = dev->type->nodename(dev);
+ if (*tmp)
+ return *tmp;
+
+ /* the class may provide a specific name */
+ if (dev->class && dev->class->nodename)
+ *tmp = dev->class->nodename(dev);
+ if (*tmp)
+ return *tmp;
+
+ /* return name without allocation, tmp == NULL */
+ if (strchr(dev_name(dev), '!') == NULL)
+ return dev_name(dev);
+
+ /* replace '!' in the name with '/' */
+ *tmp = kstrdup(dev_name(dev), GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!*tmp)
+ return NULL;
+ while ((s = strchr(*tmp, '!')))
+ s[0] = '/';
+ return *tmp;
+}
+
+/**
* device_for_each_child - device child iterator.
* @parent: parent struct device.
* @data: data for the callback.