[PATCH 01/60] mtd: core: tone down suggestion that dev.parent should be set

Frans Klaver fransklaver at gmail.com
Tue Mar 10 00:47:46 PDT 2015


On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 12:14 AM, Brian Norris
<computersforpeace at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 03, 2015 at 10:39:45PM +0100, Frans Klaver wrote:
>> add_mtd_device() has a comment suggesting that the caller should have
>> set dev.parent. This is required to have the device show up in sysfs,
>
> What do you mean "have the device show up in sysfs"? AFAICT, this only
> has bearing on whether the *parent* device shows up as a sysfs symlink
> within the MTD device directory. i.e.:
>
>    /sys/class/mtd/mtd*/device
>
> For instance, this sort of symlink:
>
>    /sys/class/mtd/mtd0/device -> ../../../f03e2800.nand
>
> It might be good to clarify this in the commit message, since you make
> the problem sound worse than (I think) it is.

I do? That was definitely not my intention. I'll look into it.

Thanks,
Frans



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