From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] change netdevice to use struct device instead of struct class_device
Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2006 16:29:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1152109763.4260.19.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060703224719.GA14176@kroah.com>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-05 14:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-03 22:47 [RFC] change netdevice to use struct device instead of struct class_device Greg KH
2006-07-03 23:07 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-07-03 23:16 ` Greg KH
2006-07-04 1:57 ` David Miller
2006-07-04 22:31 ` Greg KH
2006-07-05 18:29 ` David Miller
2006-07-05 14:29 ` Marcel Holtmann [this message]
2006-07-07 0:02 ` Greg KH
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