On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 06:45:24PM +0100, Bart Van Assche wrote: > On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 12:59 AM, Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 08:20:18PM +0300, Vladislav Bolkhovitin wrote: > > > So, I decided to reimplement it to be completely synchronous. SYSFS > > > authors did really great job and thanks to the excellent internal SYSFS > > > design and implementation it is absolutely safe. See: > > > > > > [root@tgt ~]# modprobe scst > > > [root@tgt ~]# cd /sys/kernel/scst_tgt/ > > > > Sorry, but no, you can't put this in /sys/kernel/ without getting the > > approval of the sysfs maintainer. > > > > I really don't understand why you are using kobjects in the first place, > > why isn't this in the main device tree in the kernel, using 'struct > > device'? > > We might have missed something, but as far as we know it has not yet > been explained in this thread why using 'struct device' would be an > advantage over using 'struct kobject'. It's very simple. You want your device to show up in the global device tree in the kernel, not off to one side, unconnected to anything else. Please use 'struct device', it is what you want to do here. good luck, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
