Re: [RFC] change netdevice to use struct device instead of struct class_device

Marcel Holtmann
2006-07-05T14:29:21Z

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