Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 15 Dec 2004 10:48:50 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [patch] add class_device to miscdevice |
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On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 11:48:59AM -0500, Robert Love wrote: > Greg, et al. > > Currently misc_register() throws away the return from > class_simple_device_add(). This makes it impossible to get to the > class_device of the directories in /sys/class/misc and, for example, > thus impossible to add attributes to those directories. > > Attached patch adds a class_device structure to the miscdevice structure > and assigns to it the value returned from class_simple_device_add() in > misc_register(), thus caching the value and allowing us to f.e. later > call class_device_create_file(). > > We need this for inotify, but I can see plenty of other misc. devices > wanting this and consider it missing but required functionality.
Applied, will show up in the next -mm release.
thanks,
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