Re: event sequencing

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 02:07:37PM -0500, Jon Smirl wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 12:25:26 +0100, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> wrote:
> > It may work as a child of the physical device. Or something like:
> >   net/bridge/br_sysfs_if.c:br_sysfs_addif()
> 
> I can make this work with a small pactch to drivers/base/class.c
> I need to modify class_device_add to not stomp the parent field if it
> is passed in.
> 
> Greg, is this a reasonable way to fix this, or is a new API that
> explicitly passes in the parent needed, or do you just hate the whole
> idea in general?

I like the idea of your patch, but I think it breaks when we remove the
class_device device, right?  Or if we remove the parent class_device
first.

thanks,

greg k-h


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