Sorry for the delay, had to fix a bug in u-boot... Jean Delvare said the following: > Hi Michael, > > I don't know how you sent this mail, but that's not OK. If you intend > to do kernel development, you have to use a real e-mail addresses all > along the way. > Discussed in PM. > On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 11:15:57 +0100, Michael Lawnick wrote: >> in new driver model 'kind' is no more provided for client's probe >> function. The driver frame work creates the path >> sys/bus/i2c/devices/[bus]-[dev]/ and populates it with the entries >> modalias, name, subsystem@ and uevent. If probe fails (because the >> device is not on bus at the moment) the client's sysFs-entries are not >> created, but the entries above remain. > > This is correct, and this is by design. This is how the Linux device > driver model works, BTW, nothing i2c-specific there. > Even if this is by (current linux) design, I think it is not ok ;-) It leaves an inconsistent (not instable) system. IMHO either the entries should be completely removed or completely created but not that half the way. Should we CC another list? -- Regards, Michael -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-i2c" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
