On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 10:56:33AM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <[email protected]>
> ---
> drivers/base/driver.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
> drivers/net/iseries_veth.c | 15 +++++++--------
> include/linux/device.h | 3 +++
> 3 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
> Greg, does this look like a reasonable solution to iseries_veth accessing
> the "private" kobject in struct device_driver? This version is against
> maimline, but the stuff you have in mm would just need to update
> driver_create_dir ...
Hm, we just want to be able to get to the kobject somehow here. Not
create a new api that doesn't match up. I'll think about it and figure
something that matches the other portions of the api.
> Also something along the lines of device_add_dir() might be good if you
> want to hide the kobject in struct device as well.
As devices _should_ always be dynamic, hopefully I'll not have to do
that. But knowing some of the platform devices, I'm afraid I'll have to
do that split :)
thanks,
greg k-h
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