[PATCH] ibmebus/of_platform: Move "name" sysfs attribute into generic OF devices

Paul Mackerras paulus at samba.org
Wed Aug 20 09:29:27 EST 2008


Joachim Fenkes writes:

> > Is this a bugfix that is needed for 2.6.27?
> 
> Yes, definitely. The eHCA userspace driver relies on the name attribute to 
> check for valid adapters (it checks that the name is "lhca"), so with the 
> name attribute gone, eHCA userspace will cease to work.

OK, I'll put it in.  Please, in future, always say explicitly if you
think a patch needs to go in to the kernel we're currently
stablizing.  Otherwise, I'll generally assume it's for the next merge
window.

Paul.



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