Re: [PATCH] Add sysfs support to the IPMI driver

[Greg KH]

On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 10:57:24PM -0600, Corey Minyard wrote:
> The IPMI driver has long needed to tie into the device model (and I've 
> long been hoping someone else would do it).  I finally gave up and spent 
> the time to learn how to do it.  I think this is right, it seems to work 
> on on my system.

Looks good.  One minor question:

> +
> +	snprintf(name, sizeof(name), "ipmi%d", if_num);
> +	class_simple_device_add(ipmi_class, dev, NULL, name);

What do ipmi class devices live on?  pci devices?  i2c devices?
platform devices?  Or are they purely virtual things?

thanks,

greg k-h
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