On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 05:59:44PM -0800, long wrote: > On Tue Jan 18 11:41:01 2005 Greg KH wrote: > >> > > >> > > >> > This puts all of the pcie "port" structures in /sys/devices/ Shouldn't > >> > you make the parent of the device you create point to the pci_dev > >> > structure that's passed into this function? That would make the sysfs > >> > tree a lot saner I think. > >> > >> The patch makes the parent of the device point to the pci_dev structure > >> that is passed into this function. If you think it is cleaner that the > >> patch should not, I will update the patch to reflect your input. > > > >That would be great, but it doesn't show up that way on my box. All of > >the portX devices are in /sys/devices/ which is what I don't think you > >want. I would love for them to have the parent of the pci_dev structure > >:) > > Agree. Thanks for your inputs. The patch below include the changes based > on your previous post.
Hm, that seems like a pretty big patch just to add a pointer to a parent device :) What really does this patch do? What does the sysfs tree now look like? thanks, greg k-h - 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/
