On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 02:30:01PM -0500, Mike Murphy wrote: > On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Put it on the logical device, as given to you. > > > >> I tried not to break existing functionality. Additionally, struct > >> usb_xpad contains two device pointers: one to the actual USB device, > >> and one to an input device (see source of the in-tree xpad.c). So I > >> followed your kobject.txt documentation and samples to create a new > >> object whose sole purpose in life is to expose the sysfs interface, > >> without interfering with the existing device entries in the driver. > >> I'm not sure I see a clean way to use a single struct device here.... > > > > Put it on the input device, which is what is the per-device thing. It's > > much simpler than creating a new struct kobject. You can even create a > > subdirectory for your attributes if you use an attribute group (which > > you should be doing anyway, it's much simpler that way.) > > > > OK, one thing I'm not clear on: is there a clean API for adding > attributes to an existing struct device, or do I need to "subclass" it > (the C containment and delegation approach)? device_create_file() -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
