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From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Fix another namespace issue with devices assigned to
	classes
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2010 11:30:51 +0200
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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