Re: [PATCH] 2.6 SGI Altix I/O code reorganization

Matthew Wilcox
2004-10-05T19:15:32Z

On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 12:10:08PM -0700, Grant Grundler wrote:
> > > Maybe rename pci_root_ops to "acpi_pci_ops" would make that clearer.
> >
> > No. Don't rename it to anything ACPI specific. It isn't.
>
> I understand raw_pci_ops is not ACPI specific.
> But pci_root_ops is only used by pci_acpi_scan_root().

Yes, but if we had other ways of discovering PCI root bridges on ia64,
we would use it there too. It's exactly the same as the i386 code which
has 7 different ways to discover PCI root bridges.

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