Jan-Bernd Themann wrote: > Hi, > > sorry for answering so late, I'm only tracking netdev and ppc mailing list. > > On Thursday 10 January 2008 18:34, Greg KH wrote: > > > The structure device_driver(in device.h) has a member struct > > > driver_private which > > > contains the member kobj (according to drivers/base/base.h). > > > But in device.h struct driver_private has been declared localy and > > > neither defined nor included from base.h. > > > So my effort to use driver->driver_private->obj also does not work. > > > (I am surprised from where do you access the struct device_driver) > > > > That is because a driver should not be accessing such a field. > > > > And especially not in this manner, why would this driver be creating a > > symlink that has already been created by the driver core? This whole > > thing can just be removed with no problems. Can you try just removing > > the ehea_driver_sysfs_add and ehea_driver_sysfs_remove functions to > > verify this as I don't have the hardware present to test it out. > > The eHEA driver tries to orginize its sys-entries as close as possible to > other ethernet drivers. Each eHEA NIC has multiple ports which is not that > common in PCI. This means that each port is represented by a subdirectory > which has not the "driver" sys-link, only the root directory has. > Some tools expect to have this driver link in each port directory. > That is the reason why this link is created manually. > > Are there any other ways to create this link?
This is now broken in mainline... drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.c: In function 'ehea_driver_sysfs_add': drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.c:2812: error: 'struct device_driver' has no member named 'kobj' drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.c:2815: error: 'struct device_driver' has no member named 'kobj' drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.c:2818: error: 'struct device_driver' has no member named 'kobj' drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.c: In function 'ehea_driver_sysfs_remove': drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.c:2830: error: 'struct device_driver' has no member named 'kobj' -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
