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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Fix another namespace issue with devices assigned
 to  classes
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2010 11:42:53 +0200
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On Sun, 2010-06-06 at 19:17 +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:

> There is no real difference between classes and buses. Actually we're
> working on merging them completely inside the kernel. Just declare a
> "struct bus_type" instead of a "struct class".

Can you please tell me then how to device_create() without a class? I
cannot seem to create devices without a class at all, even using manual
allocation (yuck) and device_register crashes the kernel.

johannes