From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
Tiago Vignatti <tiago.vignatti@nokia.com>,
Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>,
Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>,
linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] vga: implements VGA arbitration on Linux
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 10:24:23 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1247790263.27937.75.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090716094135.4e6c9ba0@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
On Thu, 2009-07-16 at 09:41 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > We don't have a device in this case, vga arb is more of an abstraction than
> > an actual device.
> >
> > I suppose if we were feeling crazy we could add a platform device for it.
>
> Probably a good idea and it gives you something more meaningful to hang
> the list of devices being arbitrated.
That's a good point, it would be useful for diagnosis purposes at least
to have a sysfs dir with symlinks to the devices being arbitrated.
Cheers,
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-17 0:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-14 12:57 [PATCH 0/2] VGA arbiter implementation Tiago Vignatti
2009-07-14 12:57 ` [PATCH 1/2] vga: implements VGA arbitration on Linux Tiago Vignatti
2009-07-14 12:57 ` [PATCH 2/2] vga: drops a documentation regarding the VGA arbiter Tiago Vignatti
2009-07-18 11:48 ` Pavel Machek
2009-07-19 18:50 ` Vignatti Tiago (Nokia-D/Helsinki)
2009-07-14 14:35 ` [PATCH 1/2] vga: implements VGA arbitration on Linux Alan Cox
2009-07-15 4:43 ` Dave Airlie
2009-07-16 4:25 ` Dave Airlie
2009-07-16 8:48 ` Alan Cox
2009-07-16 10:38 ` Dave Airlie
2009-07-16 16:25 ` Jesse Barnes
2009-07-17 0:22 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-07-17 0:20 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-07-17 5:00 ` Dave Airlie
2009-07-17 5:12 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-07-14 16:15 ` Greg KH
2009-07-16 3:54 ` Dave Airlie
2009-07-16 4:02 ` Greg KH
2009-07-16 4:06 ` Dave Airlie
2009-07-16 8:41 ` Alan Cox
2009-07-17 0:24 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2009-07-17 0:23 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-07-18 11:47 ` Pavel Machek
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