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   From: Gerd Knorr <kraxel@bytesex.org>
   Date: 31 Aug 2001 07:22:11 GMT
   
   What addresses are in dev->resource?  Physical?  Bus address?  Are they
   unique?

They are implementation dependent values, they may be anything and
cannot be interpreted generically.

You must make portable interfaces for these kinds of things.

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com