From: Mike Werner <werner@sgi.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][AGPGART]Allow multiple backends to be initialized
Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 12:10:32 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200412091210.32917.werner@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041207090244.GA13591@infradead.org>
On Tuesday 07 December 2004 01:02, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Wrong interface. Please pass in the pci_dev of the grpahics cards and
> add a new method for lowlevel drivers to find the bridge. For the normal
> bridges (aka everything but the hp, alpha and your new driver) you'd do
> a generic helper that just walks down the parent pointers until it finds
> a class.
>
how do you want to handle the frontend driver?
> Also I'd suggest returning the found bridges as return value of the
> function.
>
How should the caller distinguish between
a real error and the bridge in use by another client?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-12-09 20:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-12-07 1:40 [RFC][AGPGART]Allow multiple backends to be initialized Mike Werner
2004-12-07 9:02 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-12-07 18:17 ` Mike Werner
2004-12-08 17:59 ` Mike Werner
2004-12-09 20:10 ` Mike Werner [this message]
2004-12-10 5:02 ` Mike Werner
[not found] <200411131826.31770.werner@sgi.com>
2004-11-14 9:44 ` [RFC][AGPGART] Allow " Christoph Hellwig
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