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From: ebiederm@xmission•com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah•com>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions•net>,
	netdev <netdev@vger•kernel.org>,
	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy•org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Driver-core: Always create network class directories in get_device_parent.
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 16:00:38 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1r5k0c7op.fsf@fess.ebiederm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100621222047.GA27848@kroah.com> (Greg KH's message of "Mon\, 21 Jun 2010 15\:20\:47 -0700")

Greg KH <greg@kroah•com> writes:

>> diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c
>> index 9630fbd..ffb8443 100644
>> --- a/drivers/base/core.c
>> +++ b/drivers/base/core.c
>> @@ -673,7 +673,7 @@ static struct kobject *get_device_parent(struct device *dev,
>>  		 */
>>  		if (parent == NULL)
>>  			parent_kobj = virtual_device_parent(dev);
>> -		else if (parent->class)
>> +		else if (parent->class && (strcmp(dev->class->name, "net") != 0))
>
> No, we will not have subsystem specific hacks in the driver core like
> this.  What would cause us to ever be able to delete this line?

That entire if clause is a hack.  I have just made it narrower.

If it were actually a serious possibility to convert these drivers with the
existing device core I would be happy to see something else.

Kyle and Johannes went back and forth and could not figure out how to
correctly convert the mac80211_hwsim driver to a bus device, the support
is not in the device core.

Eric

      reply	other threads:[~2010-06-21 23:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-02 13:16 sysfs class/net/ problem Johannes Berg
2010-06-02 15:46 ` Greg KH
2010-06-02 15:48   ` Johannes Berg
2010-06-02 16:17     ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-06-02 16:21       ` Johannes Berg
2010-06-02 16:43         ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-06-02 17:00           ` Johannes Berg
2010-06-02 17:23             ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-06-02 17:52               ` Johannes Berg
2010-06-02 18:05                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-06-02 18:55                   ` Johannes Berg
2010-06-02 19:12                     ` Johannes Berg
2010-06-02 19:25                   ` Johannes Berg
2010-06-02 23:09                     ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-06-03  0:53                       ` [RFC][PATCH] Fix another namespace issue with devices assigned to classes Eric W. Biederman
2010-06-03  9:30                         ` Kay Sievers
2010-06-03 10:00                           ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-06-04  6:54                         ` Johannes Berg
2010-06-04  8:15                           ` Kay Sievers
2010-06-04  8:28                             ` Johannes Berg
2010-06-04  8:34                               ` Kay Sievers
2010-06-06 13:08                                 ` Johannes Berg
2010-06-06 17:17                                   ` Kay Sievers
2010-06-07  9:42                                     ` Johannes Berg
2010-06-07  9:53                                       ` Kay Sievers
2010-06-07 10:14                                         ` Johannes Berg
2010-06-07 11:05                                           ` Kay Sievers
2010-06-07 11:41                                             ` Johannes Berg
2010-06-07 12:26                                               ` Kay Sievers
2010-06-07 12:36                                                 ` Johannes Berg
2010-06-07 12:54                                                   ` Kay Sievers
2010-06-08  9:27                                                     ` Johannes Berg
2010-06-08  9:30                                                       ` Kay Sievers
2010-06-08  9:45                                                         ` Johannes Berg
2010-06-08 11:55                                                           ` Kay Sievers
2010-06-08 12:03                                                             ` Johannes Berg
2010-06-08 13:54                                                               ` Kay Sievers
2010-06-08 14:06                                                                 ` Johannes Berg
2010-06-08 14:21                                                                   ` Kay Sievers
2010-06-08 14:26                                                                     ` Johannes Berg
2010-06-08 14:47                                                                       ` Kay Sievers
2010-06-08 15:06                                                                         ` Johannes Berg
2010-06-08 16:26                                                                           ` Kay Sievers
2010-06-08 16:33                                                                             ` Johannes Berg
2010-06-08 16:39                                                                               ` Kay Sievers
2010-06-11  9:55                                                                                 ` Johannes Berg
2010-06-14  9:13                                                                                   ` Kay Sievers
2010-06-14  9:20                                                                                     ` Johannes Berg
2010-06-14  9:39                                                                                       ` Kay Sievers
2010-06-20  6:20                                                                                         ` [PATCH] Driver-core: Always create class directories fixing the broken network drivers Eric W. Biederman
2010-06-20 10:52                                                                                           ` Kay Sievers
2010-06-20 11:33                                                                                             ` Johannes Berg
2010-06-20 11:46                                                                                               ` Kay Sievers
2010-06-20 12:29                                                                                                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-06-20 13:37                                                                                                   ` Kay Sievers
2010-06-20 12:46                                                                                                 ` [PATCH] Driver-core: Always create network class directories in get_device_parent Eric W. Biederman
2010-06-21 22:20                                                                                                   ` Greg KH
2010-06-21 23:00                                                                                                     ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]

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