Re: [PATCH] Export symbol from I2C eeprom driver

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 09:20:49PM -0500, Jon Smirl wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 15:47:26 -0800, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> > > I don't want to load the driver from the script because the radeon
> > > driver is creating a sysfs link into the eeprom directory from the
> > > radeon one.
> > 
> > How are you getting the kobject to the eeprom directory from the radeon
> > driver?
> > 
> 
> I own the private I2C bus and eeprom is the only chip that will attach
> to the bus. I need to do the link in the driver since there are four
> busses and upto two monitors. The driver knows how to pair the head up
> with the right bus.
> 
> if (dev_priv->primary_head.connector != ddc_none)
>   list_for_each(item,
> &dev_priv->i2c[dev_priv->primary_head.connector].adapter.clients) {
>     client = list_entry(item, struct i2c_client, list);
>     sysfs_create_link(&dev->primary.dev_class->kobj,
> &client->dev.kobj, "monitor");
>     break;
>   }

Ick.  Oh well, sure, that's ok.  But I really think that a Kconfig rule
could be made for this, instead of trying to pull an exported symbol in.

And I have a patch in my queue to delete that id, so you will have to
come up with another symbol in the driver to do that with :)

thanks,

greg k-h