From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: class_device_create() and class_interfaces ?
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 17:29:39 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <adabquycsr0.fsf@cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060419000438.GA6522@kroah.com> (Greg KH's message of "Tue, 18 Apr 2006 17:04:38 -0700")
Greg> I'm working toward getting rid of class_devices entirely.
Greg> What you can do is use a struct device heirachy, right? If
Greg> so, take a look at this patch:
Greg> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/gregkh-2.6/patches/device-class.patch
Greg> which implements the start of this changeover. So, if you
Greg> were to do this, you can just create a separate "bus" and
Greg> drivers for these different devices, and everything should
Greg> bind just fine.
Hmm, that seems a lot more complicated that what I need. And it seems
I end up needing to handle some sort of registration myself anyway,
because someone has to create the virtual devices when a real device
shows up (since multiple drivers can't bind to the same device).
I think I'll just code my own simple registration for sub-drivers of
the combo device -- it will just take a list_head, a mutex and a few
of lines of code. That seems simpler to me than creating a fake bus
and fake devices for each combo device.
Thanks,
Roland
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2006-04-18 23:46 class_device_create() and class_interfaces ? Roland Dreier
2006-04-19 0:04 ` Greg KH
2006-04-19 0:29 ` Roland Dreier [this message]
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