[PATCH] update sysfs kset initialisation in PPC64 DLPAR IO driver

Michael Ellerman michael at ellerman.id.au
Fri May 11 17:58:09 EST 2007


On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 00:16 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 04:54:41PM +0100, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> > Greg KH wrote:
> > > On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 03:00:50PM +0100, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> > >> Move the rpadlpar device from "struct subsystem" to "struct kset"
> > >> following the changes in sysfs.
> > >>
> > >> Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw at shadowen.org>
> > >> ---
> > >>
> > >> 	Ok, this patch seems to sort out the compile problem
> > >> 	here and indeed boots and runs kernbench.  Perhaps
> > >> 	you could confirm this is sufficient.
> > > 
> > > As per the discussion on the pci hotplug list, no, this doesn't seem to
> > > fix the problem.  The developers there are looking into it.  If you can
> > > test out patches for this, I'm sure the people there would appreciate
> > > the help.
> > 
> > Sure anything they have for testing, send them to me ...
> 
> They have the same patch that you made (I made it), yet they reported
> that it didn't work properly for them.
> 
> Can you test your patch out on "real" hardware?

I tested it on real hardware, but it can't hurt for Andy to try it too I
guess.

cheers

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