Re: [PATCH] add legacy resources to sysfs

[Greg KH]

On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 03:42:47PM -0800, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> On Tuesday, December 21, 2004 2:05 pm, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> > On Tuesday, December 21, 2004 1:46 pm, Greg KH wrote:
> > > You are passing the wrong things around :)
> > >
> > > A struct pci_bus is a struct class_device, not a struct device.  I think
> > > you need to rethink your goal of putting the files into the pci device
> > > directory, or just put the files into the proper /sys/class/pci_bus/*
> > > directory as your code assumes is happening.
> >
> > Something like this then?  I added bin file support to class.c and use that
> > instead from probe.c.  I also fixed the container_of stuff in pci-sysfs.c.
> 
> Here it is w/o the ia64 stuff.  That way people can buy off on the API and not 
> worry about the platform stuff.  I can send that to Tony separately if 
> there's agreement on this part.  I'd like to create a symlink 
> from /sys/class/pci_bus/<bus>/legacy_* to /sys/devices/pci<foo>/legacy_* too, 
> how do I do that?

You can make a symlink to a kobject, not a attribute.  We already have a
symlink in that directory to the device, so do you really need another
one?

>  drivers/base/class.c    |   16 ++++++++++

Hm, how about splitting this further, one for the driver core stuff (you
forgot the device.h change here too...) and the other for the PCI stuff?

thanks,

greg k-h
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