From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Thu, 27 Nov 2008 11:22:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: from h4.dl5rb.org.uk ([81.2.74.4]:60347 "EHLO ditditdahdahdah-dahdahdahditdit.dl5rb.org.uk") by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S23948625AbYK0LWk (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Nov 2008 11:22:40 +0000 Received: from denk.linux-mips.net (denk.linux-mips.net [127.0.0.1]) by ditditdahdahdah-dahdahdahditdit.dl5rb.org.uk (8.14.2/8.14.1) with ESMTP id mARBMZSK027757; Thu, 27 Nov 2008 11:22:35 GMT Received: (from ralf@localhost) by denk.linux-mips.net (8.14.2/8.14.2/Submit) id mARBMYwU027755; Thu, 27 Nov 2008 11:22:34 GMT Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 11:22:34 +0000 From: Ralf Baechle To: Thomas Bogendoerfer Cc: Vorobiev Dmitri , linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] [MIPS] Remove unused header file gio.h Message-ID: <20081127112234.GA20189@linux-mips.org> References: <1227706472-16219-1-git-send-email-dmitri.vorobiev@movial.fi> <20081127091619.GA6255@alpha.franken.de> <43787.88.114.226.209.1227781466.squirrel@webmail.movial.fi> <20081127103706.GA6929@alpha.franken.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081127103706.GA6929@alpha.franken.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 21461 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: ralf@linux-mips.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 11:37:06AM +0100, Thomas Bogendoerfer wrote: > first step is to introduce GIO devices similair to PCI devices. My > current working GIO device is solid impact. I also looked at > supporting Phobos G160 cards, but the current set of 2114x drivers > is not useable for that... > > The big missing thing in the GIO framework right now is a bullet proof > detection for non standard GIO cards, like newport and XZ cards. They > don't provide ID information... So the resulting code will be a mix of normal probing bus code and something like "GIO platform devices" which are just added if we somehow "know" they're there? SGI never stops to amaze me ... Ralf