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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Conke Hu <conke.hu@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add pci revision id to struct pci_dev
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2006 14:31:52 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1162823512.1566.80.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5767b9100611060610s6ac551cfwac97be19f075a0b6@mail.gmail.com>

Ar Llu, 2006-11-06 am 07:10 -0700, ysgrifennodd Conke Hu:
> > You can read the revision any time you like, we don't need to cache a
> > copy as we don't reference it very often
> I've searched the kernel soruce code and it seems that the revision id
> is widely used in pci drivers.

It is not however regularly and continually accessed - it doesn't need
caching.

Alan


  reply	other threads:[~2006-11-06 14:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-06 12:40 [PATCH] add pci revision id to struct pci_dev Conke Hu
2006-11-06 12:46 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-11-06 13:28 ` Alan Cox
2006-11-06 14:10   ` Conke Hu
2006-11-06 14:31     ` Alan Cox [this message]
2006-11-06 14:19   ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-11-06 14:34     ` Alan Cox
2006-11-06 21:01 ` Luca Tettamanti

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