From: Andrey Panin <pazke@donpac.ru>
To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
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 16:57:18 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030814125718.GB7457@pazke> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0308141202410.12289-100000@vervain.sonytel.be>
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On 226, 08 14, 2003 at 12:05:28PM +0200, 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?
Look at drivers/parport/parport-serial.c, it contains whole zoo of such beasts :)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-14 12:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 71+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-12 2:02 C99 Initialisers CaT
2003-08-12 2:18 ` Robert Love
2003-08-12 2:39 ` Matthew Wilcox
2003-08-12 2:45 ` Robert Love
2003-08-12 2:57 ` Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker
2003-08-12 5:38 ` Greg KH
2003-08-12 9:01 ` Maciej Soltysiak
2003-08-12 10:03 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2003-08-12 10:19 ` Jakub Jelinek
2003-08-12 11:27 ` Matthew Wilcox
2003-08-12 16:54 ` Ian Hastie
2003-08-12 18:01 ` Greg KH
2003-08-12 23:53 ` Dave Jones
2003-08-13 0:08 ` Matthew Wilcox
2003-08-13 0:23 ` Greg KH
2003-08-13 0:31 ` Matthew Wilcox
2003-08-14 5:45 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-08-13 15:52 ` Timothy Miller
2003-08-13 17:50 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-13 0:02 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-13 0:14 ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-08-13 0:31 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-13 0:37 ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-08-13 0:49 ` Dave Jones
2003-08-13 1:25 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-13 3:02 ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-08-13 3:26 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-13 10:14 ` David S. Miller
2003-08-13 17:31 ` Greg KH
2003-08-13 17:36 ` David S. Miller
2003-08-13 17:47 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-13 18:02 ` Greg KH
2003-08-13 18:26 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-13 18:38 ` Russell King
2003-08-13 19:44 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-13 19:54 ` Matthew Wilcox
2003-08-13 20:15 ` Greg KH
2003-08-13 20:16 ` Dave Jones
2003-08-13 20:30 ` Matt Domsch
2003-08-13 20:29 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-13 21:05 ` Sam Ravnborg
2003-08-13 22:24 ` Roman Zippel
2003-08-14 20:31 ` Sam Ravnborg
2003-08-14 10:05 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2003-08-14 10:25 ` Gene Heskett
2003-08-14 10:52 ` jw schultz
2003-08-14 12:34 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2003-08-14 12:57 ` Andrey Panin [this message]
2003-08-14 18:45 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-08-13 21:06 ` Russell King
2003-08-13 21:17 ` Eduardo Pereira Habkost
2003-08-13 17:50 ` Sam Ravnborg
2003-08-13 17:54 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-13 17:54 ` Matthew Wilcox
2003-08-13 17:58 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-13 18:03 ` Greg KH
2003-08-13 17:58 ` Greg KH
2003-08-13 18:21 ` Sam Ravnborg
2003-08-13 18:09 ` Russell King
2003-08-13 20:21 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2003-08-13 21:17 ` David S. Miller
2003-08-13 21:26 ` Greg KH
2003-08-14 22:46 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2003-08-12 17:37 ` Dave Jones
2003-08-12 17:48 ` Matthew Wilcox
2003-08-12 22:06 ` Ian Hastie
2003-08-13 15:54 ` CaT
2003-08-14 6:57 ` Maciej Soltysiak
2003-08-12 16:52 Shureih, Tariq
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2003-08-13 21:19 ` junkio
2003-08-13 22:18 ` Greg KH
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