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authorKay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>2007-03-12 21:08:57 +0100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2007-04-27 10:57:28 -0700
commit414264f959cf46f49f974b3510400e12ac3624a6 (patch)
treeead43994761620cbf7cb22525610627786562098 /drivers/base
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/base')
-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 bb2cc37a4d4..bffb69e4bde 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,
"MINOR=%u", MINOR(dev->devt));
}
+ if (dev->type && dev->type->name)
+ add_uevent_var(envp, num_envp, &i,
+ buffer, buffer_size, &length,
+ "DEVTYPE=%s", dev->type->name);
+
if (dev->driver)
add_uevent_var(envp, num_envp, &i,
buffer, buffer_size, &length,