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authorGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2005-06-20 21:15:16 -0700
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2005-10-28 16:47:48 -0700
commit269bda1c123c7caf88e1deb2264f9086f0344192 (patch)
treec83d9944e0acdc40c9040cbccfb9ec7d606bdd2c /drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.h
parent502b95c1cc9e2c855a26f90fc999c5211b8ba957 (diff)
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[PATCH] USB Serial: move name to driver structure
This fixes up a lot of problems in sysfs with some of the usb serial drivers, they had incorrect driver names. Also saves a tiny ammount of memory. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.h')
-rw-r--r--drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.h12
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.h b/drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.h
index 1cedc1999508..238a5a871ed6 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.h
+++ b/drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.h
@@ -149,11 +149,8 @@ static inline void usb_set_serial_data (struct usb_serial *serial, void *data)
/**
* usb_serial_driver - describes a usb serial driver
- * @name: pointer to a string that describes this driver. This string used
+ * @description: pointer to a string that describes this driver. This string used
* in the syslog messages when a device is inserted or removed.
- * @short_name: a pointer to a string that describes this driver in
- * KOBJ_NAME_LEN characters or less. This is used for the sysfs interface
- * to describe the driver.
* @id_table: pointer to a list of usb_device_id structures that define all
* of the devices this structure can support.
* @num_interrupt_in: the number of interrupt in endpoints this device will
@@ -187,11 +184,12 @@ static inline void usb_set_serial_data (struct usb_serial *serial, void *data)
* called, the generic serial function will be used instead.
*
* The driver.owner field should be set to the module owner of this driver.
- *
+ * The driver.name field should be set to the name of this driver (remember
+ * it will show up in sysfs, so it needs to be short and to the point.
+ * Useing the module name is a good idea.)
*/
struct usb_serial_driver {
- char *name;
- char *short_name;
+ const char *description;
const struct usb_device_id *id_table;
char num_interrupt_in;
char num_interrupt_out;
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