From: "Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com>
To: grundler@dsl2.external.hp.com
Cc: andmike@us.ibm.com, hch@lst.de, James.Bottomley@steeleye.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mochel@osdl.org,
parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org
Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Untested port of parisc_device to generic device interface
Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2002 17:50:42 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200211100150.RAA27228@baldur.yggdrasil.com> (raw)
Grant Grundler writes:
>Documentation/driver-model/overview.txt:
>| Note also that it is at the _end_ of struct pci_dev. This is
>| to make people think about what they're doing when switching between the bus
>| driver and the global driver; and to prevent against mindless casts between
>| the two.
>
>Until this changes, I don't see this as a useful replacement for
>either PCI or parisc devices. The "mindless casts" can be fixed.
>But without the ability to easily go from generic device type to
>bus specific type, people will just get lost in the maze of pointers.
linux-2.5.46/include/linux/kernel.h already defines
container_of(ptr_to_element, parent_struct, element_name).
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2002-11-10 1:50 Adam J. Richter [this message]
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2002-11-10 5:20 [parisc-linux] Untested port of parisc_device to generic device interface Adam J. Richter
2002-11-10 5:20 Adam J. Richter
2002-11-10 1:50 Adam J. Richter
2002-11-10 0:23 Adam J. Richter
2002-11-10 0:23 Adam J. Richter
2002-11-10 2:01 ` J.E.J. Bottomley
2002-11-10 2:15 ` Matthew Wilcox
2002-11-10 2:15 ` Matthew Wilcox
2002-11-10 2:01 ` J.E.J. Bottomley
2002-11-09 12:22 Adam J. Richter
2002-11-09 12:22 Adam J. Richter
2002-11-09 4:51 Adam J. Richter
2002-11-09 5:21 ` Matthew Wilcox
2002-11-09 6:03 ` Greg KH
2002-11-09 6:03 ` Greg KH
2002-11-09 15:33 ` J.E.J. Bottomley
2002-11-13 6:13 ` Greg KH
2002-11-13 7:46 ` Miles Bader
2002-11-13 7:46 ` Miles Bader
2002-11-13 7:52 ` Greg KH
2002-11-13 7:52 ` Greg KH
2002-11-13 8:02 ` Miles Bader
2002-11-13 8:10 ` Greg KH
2002-11-13 8:26 ` Miles Bader
2002-11-13 8:25 ` Greg KH
2002-11-13 8:25 ` Greg KH
2002-11-13 9:05 ` Miles Bader
2002-11-13 9:05 ` Miles Bader
2002-11-13 8:26 ` Miles Bader
2002-11-13 8:10 ` Greg KH
2002-11-13 20:13 ` Grant Grundler
2002-11-13 20:13 ` Grant Grundler
2002-11-13 20:21 ` J.E.J. Bottomley
2002-11-13 20:21 ` J.E.J. Bottomley
2002-11-13 20:37 ` Grant Grundler
2002-11-13 20:37 ` Grant Grundler
2002-11-13 8:02 ` Miles Bader
2002-11-13 11:59 ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2002-11-13 11:59 ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2002-11-13 12:36 ` Marc Zyngier
2002-11-13 12:36 ` Marc Zyngier
2002-11-13 16:32 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2002-11-13 16:32 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2002-11-13 17:23 ` J.E.J. Bottomley
2002-11-13 20:33 ` Grant Grundler
2002-11-13 20:44 ` J.E.J. Bottomley
2002-11-13 20:44 ` J.E.J. Bottomley
2002-11-13 21:42 ` Grant Grundler
2002-11-13 21:42 ` Grant Grundler
2002-11-13 20:33 ` Grant Grundler
2002-11-13 17:23 ` J.E.J. Bottomley
2002-11-13 20:12 ` Grant Grundler
2002-11-13 20:12 ` Grant Grundler
2002-11-13 6:13 ` Greg KH
2002-11-09 15:33 ` J.E.J. Bottomley
2002-11-09 7:58 ` Marc Zyngier
2002-11-09 7:58 ` Marc Zyngier
2002-11-09 5:21 ` Matthew Wilcox
2002-11-09 18:04 ` Grant Grundler
2002-11-09 18:04 ` Grant Grundler
2002-11-09 4:51 Adam J. Richter
2002-11-09 1:28 Adam J. Richter
2002-11-09 1:56 ` Grant Grundler
2002-11-09 3:46 ` Matthew Wilcox
2002-11-09 17:02 ` Grant Grundler
2002-11-09 17:50 ` Matthew Wilcox
2002-11-09 19:03 ` Grant Grundler
2002-11-09 3:37 ` Matthew Wilcox
2002-11-09 3:37 ` Matthew Wilcox
2002-11-09 1:28 Adam J. Richter
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