[patch] Allow devices with no sysdevices

[Sjoerd Simons]

On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 12:10:21PM -0400, Joe Shaw wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Attached is a patch which allows us to have class devices with no
> sysdevice, and adds support to the net class device to use it.
> 
> This is needed because pcmcia doesn't use sysfs correctly in the 2.6
> kernel to date.  In order to avoid changing a ton of the existing code,
> I create a fake virtual sysdevice, and any devices which don't have a
> real sysdevice use it as its parent instead.

I was wondering, is this going to be the ``preferred'' method to work with
devices without a sysfs thingie or is it just a temporary hack to get pcmcia to
work.

I'm thinking about things like bluetooth devices and services discovered through
stuff like zeroconf/openslp.. But as usual i'm not sure if this is in hal's
scope :).. Would be very nice though.

  Sjoerd
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