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Subject: Re: devicefs & sleep support for IDE
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Patrick Mochel <mochel@osdl.org>
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On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 17:44, Patrick Mochel wrote:
> Actually, looking at it again, the struct device in hwif_t should probably 
> go away. We should initialize the parent device to the struct device in 
> the struct pci_dev of the controller; at least for PCI controllers.

>>From a 2.4 point of view and a making IDE work point of view leave it
alone for now.

> For non-PCI controllers, is there anything else that describes the 
> controller besides hwif_t ?

Undefined and basically to the IDE core "none of your business"
 

Alan