Hi Guenter, > > Only when you set the .parent field in the watchdog_device data you will get the > > referal in the /sys/class/... tree. In iTCO_wdt.c you have the following code > > that does that: iTCO_wdt_watchdog_dev.parent = dev->dev.parent; > > > > From the watchdog-kernel-api documentation: > > * parent: set this to the parent device (or NULL) before calling > > watchdog_register_device. > > > Hi Wim, > > unfortunately that only works if the driver is instantiated as platform driver, > PCI driver, or similar, where a parent device exists. Some drivers are, however, > instantiated directly from the init function (the BookE driver is an example). > What is the recommended action in this case ? Convert it to a platform driver ? If you don't have a bus related driver (like a pci-driver) then indeed it's a conversion to a platform driver. Kind regards, Wim. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-watchdog" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html