From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: brking@us.ibm.com
Cc: linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] PCI: Dynids - passing driver data
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 14:18:20 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050207221820.GA27543@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200502072200.j17M0S0N008552@d01av02.pok.ibm.com>
On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 04:00:27PM -0600, brking@us.ibm.com wrote:
>
> Currently, code exists in the pci layer to allow userspace to specify
> driver data when adding a pci dynamic id from sysfs. However, this data
> is never used and there exists no way in the existing code to use it.
Which is a good thing, right? "driver_data" is usually a pointer to
somewhere. Having userspace specify it would not be a good thing.
> This patch allows device drivers to indicate that they want driver data
> passed to them on dynamic id adds by initializing use_driver_data in their
> pci_driver->pci_dynids struct. The documentation has also been updated
> to reflect this.
What driver wants to use this?
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-02-07 22:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-02-07 22:00 [PATCH 1/1] PCI: Dynids - passing driver data brking
2005-02-07 22:18 ` Greg KH [this message]
2005-02-07 22:34 ` Brian King
2005-02-07 22:38 ` Martin Mares
2005-02-07 22:59 ` Brian King
2005-02-08 18:21 ` Adam Belay
2005-02-09 15:14 ` Brian King
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20050207221820.GA27543@kroah.com \
--to=greg@kroah.com \
--cc=brking@us.ibm.com \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.