Net device cannot be displayed by lshal

[Dan Williams]

On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 06:44 +0300, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
> On Thursday 28 February 2008, alex z wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > I am working on porting a wifi driver based on SDIO bus to an ARM platform.
> > Currently it works fine, but lshal cannot find it. When I insert the
> > modules: sdio.ko and wifi.ko, /sys/class/net/ will be added a directory:
> > eth1, but there is not the device directory in /sys/class/net/eth1.
> > 
> > Can anyone please give me some tips to solve it?
> 
> Your driver must initialize pointer to real device in net_device before creating
> it. Something like this (for PCMCIA device)
> 
>     SET_NETDEV_DEV(dev, &handle_to_dev(link));
>     if (register_netdev(dev) != 0) {
>         printk("%s: register_netdev() failed\n", MODULE_NAME);
>         goto failed;
>     }
> 
> here handle_to_dev() is PCMCIA specific. I do not know SDIO infrastructure
> so I cannot be more specific here.

Last I looked at it (a month or two ago) HAL needed some logic to handle
SDIO since SDIO just showed up in 2.6.24.  Not sure if that got added or
not.

Dan