From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marcel Holtmann Subject: Re: [RFC] change netdevice to use struct device instead of struct class_device Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2006 16:29:23 +0200 Message-ID: <1152109763.4260.19.camel@localhost> References: <20060703224719.GA14176@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from coyote.holtmann.net ([217.160.111.169]:20893 "EHLO mail.holtmann.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964886AbWGEO3U (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Jul 2006 10:29:20 -0400 To: Greg KH In-Reply-To: <20060703224719.GA14176@kroah.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org 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