From: Brian King <brking@us.ibm.com>
To: Martin Mares <mj@ucw.cz>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] PCI: Dynids - passing driver data
Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2005 16:59:38 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4207F2DA.8060101@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050207223833.GA2651@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
Martin Mares wrote:
> Hello!
>
>
>>>Which is a good thing, right? "driver_data" is usually a pointer to
>>>somewhere. Having userspace specify it would not be a good thing.
>>
>>That depends on the driver usage, and the patch allows it to be
>>configurable and defaults to not being used.
>
>
> Maybe we could just define the operation as cloning of an entry
> for another device ID, including its driver_data.
Possibly. That would potentially require a lot of parameters to
userspace. We would really need to duplicate all the currently existing
sysfs parms to accomplish this.
--
Brian King
eServer Storage I/O
IBM Linux Technology Center
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-02-07 23:00 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
2005-02-07 22:34 ` Brian King
2005-02-07 22:38 ` Martin Mares
2005-02-07 22:59 ` Brian King [this message]
2005-02-08 18:21 ` Adam Belay
2005-02-09 15:14 ` Brian King
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