linux-kernel - Re: Network: convert network devices to use struct device instead of class

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Date:	Thu, 8 Feb 2007 07:41:30 -0800
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Subject: Re: Network: convert network devices to use struct device instead
 of class_device

On Thu, 08 Feb 2007 07:43:18 -0500
Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org> wrote:

> Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote:
> > Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=43cb76d91ee85f579a69d42bc8efc08bac560278
> > Commit:     43cb76d91ee85f579a69d42bc8efc08bac560278
> > Parent:     2943ecf2ed32632473c06f1975db47a7aa98c10f
> > Author:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
> > AuthorDate: Tue Apr 9 12:14:34 2002 -0700
> > Committer:  Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
> > CommitDate: Wed Feb 7 10:37:11 2007 -0800
> > 
> >     Network: convert network devices to use struct device instead of class_device
> >     
> >     This lets the network core have the ability to handle suspend/resume
> >     issues, if it wants to.

It fixes a non-problem. I would like to see the network core suspend/resume
proposal as well. Last time I examined doing network core suspend help,
the problem was that the physical device suspend was called before the
class device. It is not clear how this change would help.
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