On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 07:54:29PM +0000, KY Srinivasan wrote: > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Greg KH [mailto:greg@xxxxxxxxx] > > Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 3:34 PM > > To: KY Srinivasan > > Cc: gregkh@xxxxxxx; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; > > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Haiyang Zhang; Mike > > Sterling; Abhishek Kane (Mindtree Consulting PVT LTD) > > Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/21] Staging: hv: Cleanup root device handling > > > > On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 02:08:06PM -0800, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote: > > > Now we can complete the cleanup of the root device > > > management. Use the preferred APIs for creating and > > > managing the root device. As part of this cleanup get rid > > > of the root device object from vmbus_driver_context. > > > > I don't understand, what is the "root device"? > > This would be the device under /sys/devices that all > other hyperv devices would be grouped under. > This notion of the root device existed in the existing > code; however its creation and management was > unnecessarily complicated. But that is what your new pci device should be, not a separate one. Why not use that instead? Actually, how are things looking then? You have a pci device, with no children, yet the root device has the children devices? That doesn't really make sense now does it? thanks, greg k-h _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
