Re: C99 Initialisers

From: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net>
To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
	Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>,
	Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>,
	rddunlap@osdl.org, davej@redhat.com,
	Linux Kernel Development <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	kernel-janitor-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: C99 Initialisers
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 06:25:41 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200308140625.41289.gene.heskett@verizon.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0308141202410.12289-100000@vervain.sonytel.be>

On Thursday 14 August 2003 06:05, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>> > On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 03:44:44PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>> >>enums are easy  putting direct references would be annoying, but
>> >> I also argue it's potentially broken and wrong to store and
>> >> export that information publicly anyway.  The use of enums
>> >> instead of pointers is practically required because there is a
>> >> many-to-one relationship of ids to board information structs.
>> >
>> > The hard part is that it's actually many-to-many.  The same card
>> > can have multiple drivers.  one driver can support many cards.
>>
>> pci_device_tables are (and must be) at per-driver granularity. 
>> Sure the same card can have multiple drivers, but that doesn't
>> really matter in this context, simply because I/we cannot break
>> that per-driver granularity.  Any solution must maintain
>> per-driver granularity.
>
>Aren't there any `hidden multi-function in single-function' PCI
> devices out there? E.g. cards with a serial and a parallel port?
>
>At least for the Zorro bus, these exist. E.g. the Ariadne card
> contains both Ethernet and 2 parallel ports, so the Ariadne
> Ethernet driver and the (still to be written) Ariadne parallel port
> driver are both drivers for the same Zorro device.

And don't forget the MFC-III, which as 2 more seriels and a parallel 
port, a quite popular card for the big box's.  But I can't, at this 
late date, certify the seriels were 16550 compliant.

>Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
>
>						Geert
>
>P.S. Yes, according to the IBM slides at LKS, m68k is dead ;-)
>--
>Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 --
> geert@linux-m68k.org
>
>In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a
> hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer"
> or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds
>
>-
>To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe
> linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
>More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
>Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/

-- 
Cheers, Gene
AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M
Athlon1600XP@1400mhz  512M
99.27% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message
by Gene Heskett are:
Copyright 2003 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.