Re: Sys fs

[Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>]

On Tue, 27 Sep 2005 14:22:47 +0200
Kormos Matej <Matej.Kormos@siemens.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> As far as I know all network drivers are automatically shown in
> /sys/class/net;
> But what to do if I want my kobject which is in my char driver appears in
> /sys/class/net?
> I am writing char driver which control some features on a switching device.
> My kobject appears in directly in /sys directory because I set kobject
> parent and kset to NULL.
> But I need to move it to the net directory. I have read the book Linux
> Device Drivers and searched web, but I have not found way how to acquire
> pointers to ksets created by another drivers and how to connect to net
> class. 
> 

If your driver is not a 'struct network_device' then don't put it
in /sys/class/net please. If you must then, it must export the same
files to keep from breaking assumptions of tools.
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