thanks for the driver model links, that's what I needed. Greg KH wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 09:21:37PM -0500, Mark D. Studebaker wrote: > > > > No. The i2c and sensors projects were started by different people in > > different places. In 1999, the i2c project was moved to be hosted > > at Netroedge, where the sensors project was already. > > It was put in a separate CVS tree. Over the last couple of > > years the original i2c contributors have moved on. > > But the separate trees remain. > > Ah, that makes more sense now, thanks for the history lesson. > > > guess I missed something, exactly what are the "driver model changes"? > > Converting the i2c core, and all drivers over to the kernel driver > model. See include/linux/device.h for the structures and > Documentation/driver-model/* for lots of documentation. Also, Pat > Mochel has written a lot of good documentation at: > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mochel/doc/lca/driver-model-lca2003.tar.gz > > It basically involves hooking the drivers and core up to the rest of the > kernel, like I've already done. All of the kernel's drivers are either > already converted to this model, or are in the process of being > converted. > > > I see a new adapter.dev.parent in the bus drivers, is that it? > > For now, yes. > > > Are there any changes affecting the chip drivers? I didn't see any. > > Not yet. If you look at my original patch I sent to the list, I do hook > up the chip drivers to the driver core, but don't do much with them. I > didn't include that portion in my patches to Linus as it needs some more > work to get everything working properly. > > Does this help explain stuff? I hope to have a more concrete set of > patches soon to show what I'm talking about (code is sometimes easier to > understand than documentation :) > > thanks, > > greg k-h
