Hi Alan:

Alan Jenkins wrote:
>
> Ok.  I wasn't sure that userspace was allowed to rely on that, but I
> re-read Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices and I see now that it
> can be allowed.
>
> Some of these issues with the compal-laptop work may come from copying
> dell-laptop.  dell-laptop is the only driver which creates rfkill
> devices without a parent device.  In fact, it doesn't even create a
> platform device :-).
>
> I'll try sending a patch or two to clean up dell-laptop.  I don't have
> the hardware but it should be pretty mechanical, almost a copy+paste
> job from a "good" driver.
>
>   
Yeah, a lot of  the source for the design issues here were from copying
bits out of dell-laptop.  I've made adjustments to this third patch to
only drop the sysfs attributes but still create the platform device.
-- 
Mario Limonciello
*Dell | Linux Engineering*
mario_limonciello@dell.com