Re: [PATCH] Export symbol from I2C eeprom driver

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 07:14:48PM -0500, Jon Smirl wrote:
> On Sat, 8 Jan 2005 14:27:19 -0800, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> > And why do you need the eeprom driver for the radeon driver to work
> > properly?
> 
> In the new radeon driver at hotplug time a user space app reads the
> DDC from the monitor and sets the list of valid modes into the driver.
> The radeon driver includes an I2C driver. The eeprom driver finds the
> radeon DDC ROMs and makes them visible to the userspace driver through
> sysfs. I could add code to the radeon driver to export the DDC ROMs to
> sysfs but the eeprom driver works fine.
> 
> I don't want to load the driver from the script because the radeon
> driver is creating a sysfs link into the eeprom directory from the
> radeon one.

How are you getting the kobject to the eeprom directory from the radeon
driver?

thanks,

greg k-h