linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ibmebus/of_platform: Move "name" sysfs attribute into generic OF devices

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Date:	Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:14:00 +1000
From:	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
To:	Joachim Fenkes <fenkes@...ibm.com>
Cc:	"LinuxPPC-Dev" <linuxppc-dev@...abs.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Christoph Raisch <raisch@...ibm.com>,
	"Hoang-Nam Nguyen" <hnguyen@...ibm.com>,
	Stefan Roscher <stefan.roscher@...ibm.com>,
	Paul Mackerras <pmac@....ibm.com>,
	Alexander Schmidt <alexschm@...ibm.com>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	Olaf Hering <olaf@...fle.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ibmebus/of_platform: Move "name" sysfs attribute into generic OF devices

Joachim Fenkes writes:

> Recent of_platform changes made of_bus_type_init() overwrite the bus type's
> .dev_attrs list, so move ibmebus' "name" attribute (which is needed by eHCA
> userspace support) into generic OF device code. Tested on POWER.

Is this a bugfix that is needed for 2.6.27?
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