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From: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Mark Haverkamp <markh@osdl.org>, Patrick Mochel <mochel@osdl.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pci bridge class code
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 13:32:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030602133258.A776@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1054554964.535.35.camel@gaston>; from benh@kernel.crashing.org on Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 01:56:04PM +0200

On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 01:56:04PM +0200, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 11:44, Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> > The same is true of serveral hot docking bridges such as the one on the
> > IBM TP600 and also of other devices which happen to be both a PCI-PCI
> > bridge and have other magic stuck on them. 
> 
> Maybe we could find some way to prioritize matching ? It's a bit late now,
> but well... if the match functions returned an integer, 0 beeing lower match,
> we could have some kind of prioritization.
> 
> That way, a class match would have lower priority than a vendorID/deviceID
> match, etc...

That would not help the case when you have the "generic" bridge module
loaded and the specific bridge driver as a loadable module.

-- 
Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)                The developer of ARM Linux
             http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html


  reply	other threads:[~2003-06-02 12:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-29 20:17 [PATCH] pci bridge class code Mark Haverkamp
2003-05-29 20:40 ` Russell King
2003-05-30  9:44   ` Alan Cox
2003-06-02 11:56     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-06-02 12:32       ` Russell King [this message]
2003-06-02 12:39         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-06-02 14:25           ` Mark Haverkamp
2003-05-30 23:13 ` Greg KH
2003-06-02 20:30   ` Mark Haverkamp
2003-06-02 20:35     ` Greg KH

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