From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S968307AbXG3TMo (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jul 2007 15:12:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S967158AbXG3TMf (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jul 2007 15:12:35 -0400 Received: from ns2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:42257 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S966975AbXG3TMe (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jul 2007 15:12:34 -0400 Subject: patch driver-core-revert-device-link-creation-check.patch added to gregkh-2.6 tree To: cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com, gregkh@suse.de, kay.sievers@vrfy.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, simon@fire.lp0.eu From: Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 12:12:24 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20070725095808.09b2cc2a@gondolin.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> Message-Id: <20070730191231.C9D1C14458DB@imap.suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 09:58:08 +0200 Subject: driver core: revert "device" link creation check To: "Kay Sievers" Cc: "Simon Arlott" , "Greg KH" , "Linux Kernel Mailing List" Message-ID: <20070725095808.09b2cc2a@gondolin.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> From: Cornelia Huck 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 Acked-by: Kay Sievers Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- 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