Re: Host drivers and conversion of SCSI to the driver model

Christoph Hellwig
2003-06-27T17:50:23Z

On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 01:56:59PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> I don't see how you can make that work without modifying parts of the
> driver model core. After all, calls to a class_device attribute's show()
> and store() methods don't go through the device driver or the bus driver;
> they are demultiplexed within drivers/base/class.c.

Right, the intention is to change the device model cope. See the dicussion
about netdev refcounting on linux-netdev a while ago.