Re: BUG(?): class_device_driver_link()
From: James Bottomley
Date: Fri Jun 18 2004 - 22:32:37 EST
On Fri, 2004-06-18 at 19:03, Greg KH wrote:
> Again, the driver owns the class device. scsi has something wrong
> again. Time to stop avoiding everyone at work...
Well, the SCSI model for using these things isn't exactly the same as a
more standard entity like a PCI device.
For every SCSI device the mid-layer scans, we allocate a generic device.
We have various drivers in the driver model corresponding to our Upper
Layer Drivers (disc[sd] tape[st] etc), although there are SCSI devices
(like processors) that will get no driver at all bound.
We then use classes to export *device* interfaces, like one class of all
devices, another for Parallel interface devices, another for Fibre
Channel devices and so on.
We expect the class interface to work whether or not a driver is
present, because the class as we've implemented it is an interface to a
device property, not a driver property (and we also expect the class
interface to span multiple drivers...tapes and discs may all be attached
to a parallel bus, etc).
It sounds like the mismatch is interface on device rather than interface
on driver, but I don't see a way we could make the interface on driver
work for us because we need the interface even if a driver isn't bound.
James
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