Re: [Report about error: unknown bus]

[Kay S. <kay...@vr...>]

On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 01:44:58PM -0400, Paul Blazejowski wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 15:17 +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
> 
> > > '/class/net/eth1' properly (no device symlink) or the sysfs-support of
> > > your device's driver needs to be fixed
> > 
> > What driver creates the eth1 device? It needs to crete the "device" symlink
> > and the maintainer should know.
> 
> eth1      Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr
> 8A-1C-C7-FF-FF-00-20-ED-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
> 
> is created by the eth1394 driver.

[CC: to the 1394 devel-list]

The eth1394.c driver needs to create the symlinks in its sysfs
representation to get support for modern userspace integration.
Most networkd drivers use:

  SET_NETDEV_DEV(dev, &pdev->dev);

to do that.

Thanks,
Kay