Commit 2fc68447 authored by gregkh@suse.de's avatar gregkh@suse.de Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

[PATCH] class: add kerneldoc for the new class functions.

Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
parent 1db560af
......@@ -173,6 +173,17 @@ static void class_device_create_release(struct class_device *class_dev)
kfree(class_dev);
}
/**
* class_create - create a struct class structure
* @owner: pointer to the module that is to "own" this struct class
* @name: pointer to a string for the name of this class.
*
* This is used to create a struct class pointer that can then be used
* in calls to class_device_create().
*
* Note, the pointer created here is to be destroyed when finished by
* making a call to class_destroy().
*/
struct class *class_create(struct module *owner, char *name)
{
struct class *cls;
......@@ -201,6 +212,13 @@ error:
return ERR_PTR(retval);
}
/**
* class_destroy - destroys a struct class structure
* @cs: pointer to the struct class that is to be destroyed
*
* Note, the pointer to be destroyed must have been created with a call
* to class_create().
*/
void class_destroy(struct class *cls)
{
if ((cls == NULL) || (IS_ERR(cls)))
......@@ -505,6 +523,23 @@ int class_device_register(struct class_device *class_dev)
return class_device_add(class_dev);
}
/**
* class_device_create - creates a class device and registers it with sysfs
* @cs: pointer to the struct class that this device should be registered to.
* @dev: the dev_t for the char device to be added.
* @device: a pointer to a struct device that is assiociated with this class device.
* @fmt: string for the class device's name
*
* This function can be used by char device classes. A struct
* class_device will be created in sysfs, registered to the specified
* class. A "dev" file will be created, showing the dev_t for the
* device. The pointer to the struct class_device will be returned from
* the call. Any further sysfs files that might be required can be
* created using this pointer.
*
* Note: the struct class passed to this function must have previously
* been created with a call to class_create().
*/
struct class_device *class_device_create(struct class *cls, dev_t devt,
struct device *device, char *fmt, ...)
{
......@@ -578,6 +613,14 @@ void class_device_unregister(struct class_device *class_dev)
class_device_put(class_dev);
}
/**
* class_device_destroy - removes a class device that was created with class_device_create()
* @cls: the pointer to the struct class that this device was registered * with.
* @dev: the dev_t of the device that was previously registered.
*
* This call unregisters and cleans up a class device that was created with a
* call to class_device_create()
*/
void class_device_destroy(struct class *cls, dev_t devt)
{
struct class_device *class_dev = NULL;
......
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