Re: [PATCH] PCI: add PCI Express Port Bus Driver subsystem

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 05:59:44PM -0800, long wrote:
> On Tue Jan 18 11:41:01 2005 Greg KH wrote:
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > This puts all of the pcie "port" structures in /sys/devices/  Shouldn't
> >> > you make the parent of the device you create point to the pci_dev
> >> > structure that's passed into this function?  That would make the sysfs
> >> > tree a lot saner I think.
> >> 
> >> The patch makes the parent of the device point to the pci_dev structure
> >> that is passed into this function. If you think it is cleaner that the
> >> patch should not, I will update the patch to reflect your input.
> >
> >That would be great, but it doesn't show up that way on my box.  All of
> >the portX devices are in /sys/devices/ which is what I don't think you
> >want.  I would love for them to have the parent of the pci_dev structure
> >:)
> 
> Agree. Thanks for your inputs. The patch below include the changes based
> on your previous post.

Hm, that seems like a pretty big patch just to add a pointer to a parent
device :)

What really does this patch do?  What does the sysfs tree now look like?

thanks,

greg k-h