From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964890AbWGEO3V (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Jul 2006 10:29:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964887AbWGEO3V (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Jul 2006 10:29:21 -0400 Received: from coyote.holtmann.net ([217.160.111.169]:20893 "EHLO mail.holtmann.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964886AbWGEO3U (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Jul 2006 10:29:20 -0400 Subject: Re: [RFC] change netdevice to use struct device instead of struct class_device From: Marcel Holtmann To: Greg KH Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20060703224719.GA14176@kroah.com> References: <20060703224719.GA14176@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2006 16:29:23 +0200 Message-Id: <1152109763.4260.19.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Greg, > The patch needs some other changes to the driver core that are also in > my git tree, and included in the -mm release. Specifically these > patches are needed: > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/gregkh-2.6/patches/driver/device-groups.patch > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/gregkh-2.6/patches/driver/device-class-parent.patch while converting the Bluetooth subsystem from class devices to real devices, I had some similar situation with devices without parent. I actually used a Bluetooth platform device as parent for virtual or serial based devices. Regards Marcel