Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 30 May 2013 23:54:14 +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, > > unfortunately that only works if the driver is instantiated as platform driver, > PCI driver, or similar, where a parent device exists. Some drivers are, however, > instantiated directly from the init function (the BookE driver is an example). > What is the recommended action in this case ? Convert it to a platform driver ?
If you don't have a bus related driver (like a pci-driver) then indeed it's a conversion to a platform driver.
Kind regards, Wim.
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