From 414264f959cf46f49f974b3510400e12ac3624a6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kay Sievers Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 21:08:57 +0100 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/base/core.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) (limited to 'drivers/base') 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, -- cgit v1.2.3