Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 30 May 2013 22:37:04 +0200 | From | Wim Van Sebroeck <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3] watchdog: Add hook for kicking in kdump path |
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Hi Guenter,
> > Only when you set the .parent field in the watchdog_device data you will get the > > referal in the /sys/class/... tree. In iTCO_wdt.c you have the following code > > that does that: iTCO_wdt_watchdog_dev.parent = dev->dev.parent; > > > > From the watchdog-kernel-api documentation: > > * parent: set this to the parent device (or NULL) before calling > > watchdog_register_device. > > > Hi Wim, > > We live and learn ... thanks a lot for the hint!
If it's about learning: the old way was via miscdevice.parent ... I think some "old" drivers still do this.
Kind regards, Wim.
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