This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
Subject: driver core: revert "device" link creation check
to my gregkh-2.6 tree. Its filename is
driver-core-revert-device-link-creation-check.patch
This tree can be found at
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/gregkh-2.6/patches/
>From [email protected] Wed Jul 25 00:58:00 2007
From: Cornelia Huck <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 09:58:08 +0200
Subject: driver core: revert "device" link creation check
To: "Kay Sievers" <[email protected]>
Cc: "Simon Arlott" <[email protected]>, "Greg KH" <[email protected]>, "Linux Kernel Mailing List" <[email protected]>
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
From: Cornelia Huck <[email protected]>
driver core: revert "device" link creation check
Commit 2ee97caf0a6602f749ddbfdb1449e383e1212707 introduced an extra
check on when to create the "device" symlink. Unfortunately, this
breaks input, so let's revert to the old behaviour.
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Kay Sievers <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
drivers/base/core.c | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/base/core.c
+++ b/drivers/base/core.c
@@ -692,8 +692,7 @@ static int device_add_class_symlinks(str
if (error)
goto out_subsys;
}
- /* only bus-device parents get a "device"-link */
- if (dev->parent && dev->parent->bus) {
+ if (dev->parent) {
error = sysfs_create_link(&dev->kobj, &dev->parent->kobj,
"device");
if (error)
Patches currently in gregkh-2.6 which might be from [email protected] are
driver/kobject-fix-link-error-when-config_hotplug-is-disabled.patch
driver/driver-core-revert-device-link-creation-check.patch
driver/kobject-update-documentation.patch
driver/kset-kernel-doc-cleanups.patch
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