netdev - Re: [RFC][PATCH] Fix another namespace issue with devices assigned to classes

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Message-ID: <1275990325.3706.116.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net>
Date:	Tue, 08 Jun 2010 11:45:25 +0200
From:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>
Cc:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Fix another namespace issue with devices assigned
 to  classes

On Tue, 2010-06-08 at 11:30 +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 11:27, Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2010-06-07 at 14:54 +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
> >
> >> > I see you remove the driver. Does this mean that in sysfs these devices
> >> > wouldn't have a driver symlink? ISTR that we needed that for userspace,
> >> > but I'm not entirely sure, and I don't have all the relevant userspace
> >> > in my test setup.
> >>
> >> Yeah, if you need the driver, you need to use bus device, as you do
> >> now. The driver needs to be registered with the core, and the probe
> >> function needs to tell to bind to the devices while registered. You
> >> can not manually assign this.
> >
> > So I spoke to Jouni and he says that he doesn't remember needing the
> > driver, so I guess we don't care. Can I get you to submit that patch
> > properly? Send it to linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org please.
> 
> Sure, you mean the patch that changes the hwsim code, or the one I
> talked about to properly create a virtual bus parent?

The hwsim one you pasted earlier.

johannes

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