Re: [PATCH] eth1394: dev file [Report about error: unknown bus]

[Paul B. <pa...@bl...>]

On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 16:26 -0700, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> Kay Sievers wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 01:44:58PM -0400, Paul Blazejowski wrote:
> >=20
> >>On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 15:17 +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>>'/class/net/eth1' properly (no device symlink) or the sysfs-support o=
f
> >>>>your device's driver needs to be fixed
> >>>
> >>>What driver creates the eth1 device? It needs to crete the "device" sy=
mlink
> >>>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.
> >=20
> >=20
> > [CC: to the 1394 devel-list]
> >=20
> > The eth1394.c driver needs to create the symlinks in its sysfs
> > representation to get support for modern userspace integration.
> > Most networkd drivers use:
> >=20
> >   SET_NETDEV_DEV(dev, &pdev->dev);
> >=20
> > to do that.
>=20
> Paul,
> Can you test this patch, please?
>=20
> Thanks,

Randy applied the patch to kernel 2.6.9 and now eth1394 creates symlink
under /sys/class/net/eth2

lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    0 2004-10-20 23:58 device
-> ../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0d.0/fw-host0/

Thank you,

Paul
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