New device layout, including static and dynamic initializers

ollie lho ollie at sis.com.tw
Tue Jul 22 02:00:01 CEST 2003


On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 13:49, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> 
> For the rest who haven't looked so closely.  
> Greg and Ron are taking the existing superio model and generalizing it.
> 
> I have taken the existing pci device model and generalized it.
> 
> And now we have the design review/fight/slug out as we meet in
> the middle.
> 
> I suspect the union of the two sets of functions from struct
> device_operations and from the superio side is two high.   But the way
> forward is to get that union and have everyone understand the pieces
> backwards and forwards.
> 

I still don't see the point of the dispute. In the PCI model, you
make the operations (functions) a separated entity and in the superio
model, the operations are embedded in the data structure. Is there
any fundamental or design conflict between these two ?

-- 
ollie lho <ollie at sis.com.tw>




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