linux-kernel - Re: Removing sysdevs?

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Message-ID: <486BF9AC.6070704@firstfloor.org>
Date:	Wed, 02 Jul 2008 23:57:00 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
CC:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>, Nathan Lynch <ntl@...ox.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Removing sysdevs?


> The plan is:
> 	- remaining driver core cleanups to allow for multiple drivers
> 	  to be bound to individual devices
> 	- add multiple binding support to the core
> 	- migrate existing sysdevs to struct device, now that multiple
> 	  binding is allowed
> 	- delete sysdev structure
> 	- profit!

I hope the sysdev semantics of running with interrupts etc. will be kept?

> 
> It's that first step that is taking a while, the last big changes will
> be going into 2.6.27 to help accomplish this, after that merge happens
> for 2.6.27-rc1 I'll be working on the remaining steps.

So what's up with the sysdev attribute passing changes i posted? Are you
going to put them in or will the conversion happen so soon that they're
not worth it?

I eventually need the passed attribute for the dynamic bank patches.

-Andi
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