Driver core: move the static kobject out of struct driver
This patch removes the kobject, and a few other driver-core-only fields
out of struct driver and into the driver core only. Now drivers can be
safely create on the stack or statically (like they currently are.)
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
diff --git a/drivers/base/base.h b/drivers/base/base.h
index 0547236..3b0f395 100644
--- a/drivers/base/base.h
+++ b/drivers/base/base.h
@@ -27,6 +27,14 @@
struct bus_type *bus;
};
+struct driver_private {
+ struct kobject kobj;
+ struct klist klist_devices;
+ struct klist_node knode_bus;
+ struct module_kobject *mkobj;
+ struct device_driver *driver;
+};
+#define to_driver(obj) container_of(obj, struct driver_private, kobj)
/* initialisation functions */
extern int devices_init(void);