Re: register_device: was: Re: [PATCH v6 06/11] printk: console: Introduce sysfs interface for per-console loglevels

[Chris Down]

Petr Mladek writes:
> Honestly, I am not sure how to review this. I am not familiar with
> these APIs. I have spent few hours trying to investigate various
> drivers but I did not find any similar use case. I tried to look
> for documentation but I did not find any good HOWTO.
>
> It seems to work but it is the only thing that I could
> say about it ;-)
>
> Just by chance, do you have any pointers into a code or
> documentation which could help me to feel more comfortable?

I think you and I are in a similar boat :-) Some similar code can be seen in 
places like block/genhd.c in device_add_disk and __alloc_disk_node, which also 
do this kind of dynamic setup. I mostly just spent my time looking at device.h 
and its users.

Greg, maybe you could also take a look?