Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 18:28:24 -0800
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: "Kilau, Scott" <Scott_Kilau@digi.com>
Cc: germano.barreiro@cyclades.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: patch for sysfs in the cyclades driver
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On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 02:51:33PM -0600, Kilau, Scott wrote:
> I know you have done work on USB serial drivers with devices with
> multiple ports...
> Is there any way to create a file in sys that can point back to a port,
> and NOT the port's
> parent (ie, the board) WITHOUT having to create a new kobject per port?

What's wrong with the kobject in /sys/class/tty/ which has one object
per port?  I think we might not be exporting that class_device
structure, but I would not have a problem with doing that.

thanks,

greg k-h
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