From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa-YMNOUZJC4hwAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
To: sukadev-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org
Cc: kyle-hoO6YkzgTuCM0SS3m2neIg@public.gmane.org,
bastian-yyjItF7Rl6lg9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org,
containers-qjLDD68F18O7TbgM5vRIOg@public.gmane.org,
xemul-GEFAQzZX7r8dnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org,
Alan Cox <alan-qBU/x9rampVanCEyBjwyrvXRex20P6io@public.gmane.org>,
ebiederm-aS9lmoZGLiVWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/3] Move parts of init_dev() into new functions
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:13:26 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48B366C6.4010702@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080826011807.GB2959-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
sukadev-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org wrote:
>
> Yes, we know the driver, but do we need to pass it into ->get_tty() ?
>
> Passing it in (or having the operation compute from inode) has advantage
> of allowing drivers to share code if necessary.
>
Yes, and it gets access to its own data. It's how you implement an
object-oriented method call in C.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-26 2:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-25 20:11 [RFC][PATCH 1/3] Move parts of init_dev() into new functions sukadev-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA
[not found] ` <20080825201110.GA32440-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2008-08-25 20:11 ` Alan Cox
[not found] ` <20080825211146.70b4af63-qBU/x9rampVanCEyBjwyrvXRex20P6io@public.gmane.org>
2008-08-25 22:01 ` sukadev-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA
[not found] ` <20080825220125.GA1084-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2008-08-25 22:21 ` H. Peter Anvin
[not found] ` <48B33072.4080509-YMNOUZJC4hwAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2008-08-25 22:20 ` Alan Cox
[not found] ` <20080825232003.3574a181-qBU/x9rampVanCEyBjwyrvXRex20P6io@public.gmane.org>
2008-08-26 0:02 ` H. Peter Anvin
[not found] ` <48B34818.2000400-YMNOUZJC4hwAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2008-08-26 9:44 ` Alan Cox
[not found] ` <20080826104445.06d36dd2-qBU/x9rampVanCEyBjwyrvXRex20P6io@public.gmane.org>
2008-08-26 16:40 ` H. Peter Anvin
[not found] ` <48B431F4.90201-YMNOUZJC4hwAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2008-08-26 16:49 ` Alan Cox
[not found] ` <20080826174921.6bfbf989-qBU/x9rampVanCEyBjwyrvXRex20P6io@public.gmane.org>
2008-08-26 17:40 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-08-25 23:57 ` sukadev-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA
[not found] ` <20080825235736.GA2959-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2008-08-26 0:04 ` H. Peter Anvin
[not found] ` <48B348A7.5020407-YMNOUZJC4hwAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2008-08-26 1:18 ` sukadev-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA
[not found] ` <20080826011807.GB2959-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2008-08-26 2:13 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2008-08-25 20:23 ` [RFC][PATCH 2/3] Move some init_dev() code to callers sukadev-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA
[not found] ` <20080825202314.GA318-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2008-08-28 20:17 ` sukadev-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA
2008-08-25 20:23 ` [RFC][PATCH 3/3] Rename and change init_dev() prototype sukadev-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA
2008-08-26 11:09 ` [RFC][PATCH 1/3] Move parts of init_dev() into new functions Alan Cox
2008-08-28 20:25 ` sukadev-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA
[not found] ` <20080828202520.GG24075-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2008-08-28 21:00 ` Alan Cox
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