linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Introduce driver_create/remove

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Date:	Wed, 12 Dec 2007 23:10:22 -0800
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
Cc:	michael@...erman.id.au, linuxppc-dev@...abs.org,
	"Kyle A. Lucke" <klucke@...ibm.com>, paulus@...ba.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, David Gibson <dwg@....ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Introduce driver_create/remove_dir

On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 10:56:33AM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
> ---
>  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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