STRUCT CLASS(9)                   Device drivers infrastructure                   STRUCT CLASS(9)



NAME
       struct_class - device classes

SYNOPSIS
       struct class {
         const char * name;
         struct module * owner;
         struct class_attribute * class_attrs;
         const struct attribute_group ** dev_groups;
         struct kobject * dev_kobj;
         int (* dev_uevent) (struct device *dev, struct kobj_uevent_env *env);
         char *(* devnode) (struct device *dev, umode_t *mode);
         void (* class_release) (struct class *class);
         void (* dev_release) (struct device *dev);
         int (* suspend) (struct device *dev, pm_message_t state);
         int (* resume) (struct device *dev);
         const struct kobj_ns_type_operations * ns_type;
         const void *(* namespace) (struct device *dev);
         const struct dev_pm_ops * pm;
         struct subsys_private * p;
       };

MEMBERS
       name
           Name of the class.

       owner
           The module owner.

       class_attrs
           Default attributes of this class.

       dev_groups
           Default attributes of the devices that belong to the class.

       dev_kobj
           The kobject that represents this class and links it into the hierarchy.

       dev_uevent
           Called when a device is added, removed from this class, or a few other things that
           generate uevents to add the environment variables.

       devnode
           Callback to provide the devtmpfs.

       class_release
           Called to release this class.

       dev_release
           Called to release the device.

       suspend
           Used to put the device to sleep mode, usually to a low power state.

       resume
           Used to bring the device from the sleep mode.

       ns_type
           Callbacks so sysfs can detemine namespaces.

       namespace
           Namespace of the device belongs to this class.

       pm
           The default device power management operations of this class.

       p
           The private data of the driver core, no one other than the driver core can touch this.

DESCRIPTION
       A class is a higher-level view of a device that abstracts out low-level implementation
       details. Drivers may see a SCSI disk or an ATA disk, but, at the class level, they are all
       simply disks. Classes allow user space to work with devices based on what they do, rather
       than how they are connected or how they work.

COPYRIGHT
Kernel Hackers Manual 4.8.                 January 2017                           STRUCT CLASS(9)