Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Andy Green <> | Subject | [RFC PATCH 1/4] PLATFORM: introduce structure to bind async platform data to a dev path name | Date | Sat, 12 Mar 2011 22:32:12 +0000 |
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This structure allows tagging arbitrary platform_data that can't be attached to a device until after it is probed, with the device path name that it is to be attached to.
Signed-off-by: Andy Green <andy.green@linaro.org> ---
include/linux/platform_device.h | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 1 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/platform_device.h b/include/linux/platform_device.h index 2e700ec..d8c0ba9 100644 --- a/include/linux/platform_device.h +++ b/include/linux/platform_device.h @@ -193,4 +193,21 @@ static inline char *early_platform_driver_setup_func(void) \ } #endif /* MODULE */ +/** + * platform_async_platform_data - maps a known bus + device name on to + * platform_data to be attached to that device + * when it is eventually instantiated. For use + * with onboard devices on buses that probe + * asynchronously. Device path fields must + * be separated with '/'. + * @device_path: bus / device path, eg, "usb1/1-1/1-1.1" + * @platform_data: platform_data to attach to device matching the + * device_path + */ + +struct platform_async_platform_data { + const char *device_path; + void *platform_data; +}; + #endif /* _PLATFORM_DEVICE_H_ */
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