Re: borked sysfs system devices in 2.5.72

[Patrick Mochel]

> Look in subsys_attr_show().  It is being passed a kobject, which is a
> member of a "struct sys_device".  We can tell this because I printed out
> the address of the sys device in sys_device_register().  A to_subsys()
> is being performed on that object, which is wrong, because the kobject
> is not a member of a "struct subsystem".

My question was how the hell it was getting there in the first place, and 
I see that the type of the object isn't getting set properly, so it 
defaults to treat it as a struct subsystem. 

Could you please try the following patch, and let me know if it works? 

Thanks,

	-pat

===== drivers/base/sys.c 1.25 vs edited =====
--- 1.25/drivers/base/sys.c	Mon Jun 16 10:07:04 2003
+++ edited/drivers/base/sys.c	Tue Jun 17 15:50:48 2003
@@ -170,6 +172,9 @@
 
 	/* Make sure the kset is set */
 	sysdev->kobj.kset = &cls->kset;
+
+	/* But make sure we point to the right type for sysfs translation */
+	sysdev->kobj.ktype = &ktype_sysdev;
 
 	/* set the kobject name */
 	snprintf(sysdev->kobj.name,KOBJ_NAME_LEN,"%s%d",