Re: [PATCH 2.6.21-rc1] ehea: dynamic add / remove port

[John Rose <johnrose@austin.ibm.com>]

> Second, the probe and remove functions do not communicate whether an add
> or remove was successful.  Combine this with the lack of port
> information in the adapter sysfs directory, and the userspace tool has
> no way of verifying a dynamic add/remove.

One way to communicate a return code is by making the sysfs interface
file read/write, and having the read callback give a return code.  For
an example of this, you can look at drivers/pci/rpadlpar_sysfs.c and
rpadlpar_core.c.

It would still be nice to have some way from the adapter sysfs directory
to list/examine logical ports.  Symlinks would work, but it would be
even nicer to have a new kobject per port with attribute files for
logical id, state, etc.