Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Subject | patch driver-core-revert-device-link-creation-check.patch added to gregkh-2.6 tree | From | <> | Date | Mon, 30 Jul 2007 12:12:24 -0700 |
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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
Subject: driver core: revert "device" link creation check
to my gregkh-2.6 tree. Its filename is
driver-core-revert-device-link-creation-check.patch
This tree can be found at http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/gregkh-2.6/patches/
From cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com Wed Jul 25 00:58:00 2007 From: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 09:58:08 +0200 Subject: driver core: revert "device" link creation check To: "Kay Sievers" <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Cc: "Simon Arlott" <simon@fire.lp0.eu>, "Greg KH" <gregkh@suse.de>, "Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> Message-ID: <20070725095808.09b2cc2a@gondolin.boeblingen.de.ibm.com>
From: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
driver core: revert "device" link creation check
Commit 2ee97caf0a6602f749ddbfdb1449e383e1212707 introduced an extra check on when to create the "device" symlink. Unfortunately, this breaks input, so let's revert to the old behaviour.
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Acked-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
--- drivers/base/core.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/base/core.c +++ b/drivers/base/core.c @@ -692,8 +692,7 @@ static int device_add_class_symlinks(str if (error) goto out_subsys; } - /* only bus-device parents get a "device"-link */ - if (dev->parent && dev->parent->bus) { + if (dev->parent) { error = sysfs_create_link(&dev->kobj, &dev->parent->kobj, "device"); if (error)
Patches currently in gregkh-2.6 which might be from cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com are
driver/kobject-fix-link-error-when-config_hotplug-is-disabled.patch driver/driver-core-revert-device-link-creation-check.patch driver/kobject-update-documentation.patch driver/kset-kernel-doc-cleanups.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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