From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Fix another namespace issue with devices assigned to classes
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2010 11:30:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTinMauFsJTKS3eT-pT44KQ8PSf3HJLS8CZIeHmxP@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1275989260.3706.115.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net>
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 11:27, Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-06-07 at 14:54 +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
>
>> > I see you remove the driver. Does this mean that in sysfs these devices
>> > wouldn't have a driver symlink? ISTR that we needed that for userspace,
>> > but I'm not entirely sure, and I don't have all the relevant userspace
>> > in my test setup.
>>
>> Yeah, if you need the driver, you need to use bus device, as you do
>> now. The driver needs to be registered with the core, and the probe
>> function needs to tell to bind to the devices while registered. You
>> can not manually assign this.
>
> So I spoke to Jouni and he says that he doesn't remember needing the
> driver, so I guess we don't care. Can I get you to submit that patch
> properly? Send it to linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org please.
Sure, you mean the patch that changes the hwsim code, or the one I
talked about to properly create a virtual bus parent?
Kay
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-08 9:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-02 13:16 sysfs class/net/ problem Johannes Berg
2010-06-02 15:46 ` Greg KH
2010-06-02 15:48 ` Johannes Berg
2010-06-02 16:17 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-06-02 16:21 ` Johannes Berg
2010-06-02 16:43 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-06-02 17:00 ` Johannes Berg
2010-06-02 17:23 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-06-02 17:52 ` Johannes Berg
2010-06-02 18:05 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-06-02 18:55 ` Johannes Berg
2010-06-02 19:12 ` Johannes Berg
2010-06-02 19:25 ` Johannes Berg
2010-06-02 23:09 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-06-03 0:53 ` [RFC][PATCH] Fix another namespace issue with devices assigned to classes Eric W. Biederman
2010-06-03 9:30 ` Kay Sievers
2010-06-03 10:00 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-06-04 6:54 ` Johannes Berg
2010-06-04 8:15 ` Kay Sievers
2010-06-04 8:28 ` Johannes Berg
2010-06-04 8:34 ` Kay Sievers
2010-06-06 13:08 ` Johannes Berg
2010-06-06 17:17 ` Kay Sievers
2010-06-07 9:42 ` Johannes Berg
2010-06-07 9:53 ` Kay Sievers
2010-06-07 10:14 ` Johannes Berg
2010-06-07 11:05 ` Kay Sievers
2010-06-07 11:41 ` Johannes Berg
2010-06-07 12:26 ` Kay Sievers
2010-06-07 12:36 ` Johannes Berg
2010-06-07 12:54 ` Kay Sievers
2010-06-08 9:27 ` Johannes Berg
2010-06-08 9:30 ` Kay Sievers [this message]
2010-06-08 9:45 ` Johannes Berg
2010-06-08 11:55 ` Kay Sievers
2010-06-08 12:03 ` Johannes Berg
2010-06-08 13:54 ` Kay Sievers
2010-06-08 14:06 ` Johannes Berg
2010-06-08 14:21 ` Kay Sievers
2010-06-08 14:26 ` Johannes Berg
2010-06-08 14:47 ` Kay Sievers
2010-06-08 15:06 ` Johannes Berg
2010-06-08 16:26 ` Kay Sievers
2010-06-08 16:33 ` Johannes Berg
2010-06-08 16:39 ` Kay Sievers
2010-06-11 9:55 ` Johannes Berg
2010-06-14 9:13 ` Kay Sievers
2010-06-14 9:20 ` Johannes Berg
2010-06-14 9:39 ` Kay Sievers
[not found] ` <bug-16215-7251@https.bugzilla.kernel.org/>
2010-06-20 6:20 ` [PATCH] Driver-core: Always create class directories fixing the broken network drivers Eric W. Biederman
2010-06-20 10:52 ` Kay Sievers
2010-06-20 11:33 ` Johannes Berg
2010-06-20 11:46 ` Kay Sievers
2010-06-20 12:29 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-06-20 13:37 ` Kay Sievers
2010-06-20 12:46 ` [PATCH] Driver-core: Always create network class directories in get_device_parent Eric W. Biederman
2010-06-21 22:20 ` Greg KH
2010-06-21 23:00 ` Eric W. Biederman
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