From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Mon, 21 May 2007 16:47:43 +0100 (BST) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([127.0.0.1]:56973 "EHLO dl5rb.ham-radio-op.net") by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S20024325AbXEUPrl (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 May 2007 16:47:41 +0100 Received: from denk.linux-mips.net (denk.linux-mips.net [127.0.0.1]) by dl5rb.ham-radio-op.net (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l4LFlR9T007993; Mon, 21 May 2007 17:47:27 +0200 Received: (from ralf@localhost) by denk.linux-mips.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id l4LFlQhT007992; Mon, 21 May 2007 16:47:26 +0100 Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 16:47:26 +0100 From: Ralf Baechle To: Martin Michlmayr Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org, Giuseppe Sacco Subject: Re: SGI O2 meth: missing sysfs device symlink Message-ID: <20070521154726.GE5943@linux-mips.org> References: <1178743456.15447.41.camel@scarafaggio> <20070516151939.GH19816@deprecation.cyrius.com> <20070516160313.GA3409@bongo.bofh.it> <50621.192.168.2.50.1179383217.squirrel@eppesuigoccas.homedns.org> <20070517151636.GJ3586@deprecation.cyrius.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070517151636.GJ3586@deprecation.cyrius.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 15116 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: ralf@linux-mips.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 05:16:37PM +0200, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > Apparently udev fails to rename the SGI O2 interface because it > doesn't have a sysfs device symlink. Does someone here know how to > fix this? The driver needs to be rewritten to support the device driver model which in this case means as a platform device. The driver is ok; it's just ancient style, not long ago was using constructs there were already deprecated for 2.4 ... Ralf