Re: patch for sysfs in the cyclades driver

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 11:05:40AM -0800, Roland Dreier wrote:
>     Roland> I assume this is OK (since there is already one in-kernel
>     Roland> driver doing it), but Greg, can you confirm that it's
>     Roland> definitely OK for a driver to use class_set_devdata() on a
>     Roland> class_device from class_simple_device_add()?
> 
>     Greg> Hm, I think that should be ok, but I'd make sure to test it
>     Greg> before verifying that it really is :)
> 
> Well class_simple.c definitely doesn't use class_data/class_set_devdata()
> now (and as I said drivers/scsi/st.c is using this on a class_simple
> device).  The question is whether you can bless this situation as part
> of the API, or whether some time in the future class_simple might
> start using class_data.

Hey, if it works today, great!  If I, or someone else breaks this in the
future, they they will have to deal with the issue then :)

In short, use it.

thanks,

greg k-h