Merge branch 'linus' into x86/kconfig

[linux-2.6-omap-h63xx.git] / drivers / base / core.c

diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c
index 72eccae4904bf8685f887bcd0b9ef6a6fc19f5cb..ee0a51a3a41d876451395b0f2a93b6a06a430394 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/base/core.c
+++ b/drivers/base/core.c
@@ -759,6 +759,22 @@ static void device_remove_class_symlinks(struct device *dev)
        sysfs_remove_link(&dev->kobj, "subsystem");
 }
 
+/**
+ * dev_set_name - set a device name
+ * @dev: device
+ * @fmt: format string for the device's name
+ */
+int dev_set_name(struct device *dev, const char *fmt, ...)
+{
+       va_list vargs;
+
+       va_start(vargs, fmt);
+       vsnprintf(dev->bus_id, sizeof(dev->bus_id), fmt, vargs);
+       va_end(vargs);
+       return 0;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(dev_set_name);
+
 /**
  * device_add - add device to device hierarchy.
  * @dev: device.