From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: brking@us.ibm.com
Cc: linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] PCI: Dynids - passing driver data
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 14:18:20 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050207221820.GA27543@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200502072200.j17M0S0N008552@d01av02.pok.ibm.com>
On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 04:00:27PM -0600, brking@us.ibm.com wrote:
>
> Currently, code exists in the pci layer to allow userspace to specify
> driver data when adding a pci dynamic id from sysfs. However, this data
> is never used and there exists no way in the existing code to use it.
Which is a good thing, right? "driver_data" is usually a pointer to
somewhere. Having userspace specify it would not be a good thing.
> This patch allows device drivers to indicate that they want driver data
> passed to them on dynamic id adds by initializing use_driver_data in their
> pci_driver->pci_dynids struct. The documentation has also been updated
> to reflect this.
What driver wants to use this?
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-02-07 22:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-02-07 22:00 [PATCH 1/1] PCI: Dynids - passing driver data brking
2005-02-07 22:18 ` Greg KH [this message]
2005-02-07 22:34 ` Brian King
2005-02-07 22:38 ` Martin Mares
2005-02-07 22:59 ` Brian King
2005-02-08 18:21 ` Adam Belay
2005-02-09 15:14 ` Brian King
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