From: jbarnes@sgi.com (Jesse Barnes)
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, jeremy@sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] readX_relaxed interface
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 18:21:55 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040116022155.GA10634@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040116003224.GF23253@kroah.com>
On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 04:32:25PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> It looks ok, but it would really be good if we could indicate if the
> read actually was successful. Right now some platforms can detect
> faults and do not have a way to get that error back to the driver in a
> sane manner. If we were to change the read* functions to look something
> like:
> int readb(void *addr, u8 *data);
> it would be a world easier.
At one point, I thought it would be nice if it took a struct device *
too, but that's probably a bit much.
> Now I'm not saying I want to change the existing interfaces to support
> this, that's too much code to change for even me (and is a 2.7 thing.)
>
> Just wanted to put this idea in people's heads that we need to start
> planning for something like it.
Sounds reasonable. It should be helpful.
Thanks,
Jesse
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-16 2:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-15 20:49 [PATCH] readX_relaxed interface Jesse Barnes
2004-01-15 22:16 ` Grant Grundler
2004-01-15 22:56 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-01-16 3:19 ` Jeremy Higdon
2004-01-16 0:32 ` Greg KH
2004-01-16 2:21 ` Jesse Barnes [this message]
2004-01-16 5:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-16 17:21 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-01-16 5:00 ` Grant Grundler
2004-01-19 9:31 ` Hironobu Ishii
2004-01-19 18:18 ` Grant Grundler
2004-01-16 5:50 ` Grant Grundler
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