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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ibmvscsi driver - sixth version
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 19:10:34 -0500
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To: Dave Boutcher <sleddog@us.ibm.com>
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Dave Boutcher wrote:
> There will always be 1 (no more, no less) of these struct devices in the
> system, so I'll move the definition of this into iSeries_iommu and then
> just reference it from the driver.  I think that should abstract things
> sufficiently.


Sounds like a small module declaring devices such as this would be more 
appropriate than unrelated iommu code?

In a regular PCI system, the PCI bus probing code creates devices.  For 
platform-specific virtual devices, ppc64 needs "create my virtual 
devices" initialization code, it looks like.

	Jeff