From: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>, Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>,
Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>, Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@sgi.com>,
linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Fwd: Patch to control VGA bus routing and active VGA device.
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 18:11:37 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9e4733910501241511d0d91b4@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050124195523.B5541@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 19:55:23 +0000, Russell King
<rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> There's a very good reason not to have a bridge driver at the moment -
> some PCI to PCI bridges need special drivers. Currently, as the device
> model stands today, we can only have ONE PCI to PCI bridge driver for
> all P2P bridges, which is bad news if you need a specific driver for,
> eg, a mobility docking station P2P bridge.
There is no requirement that the bridge driver be generic code. I
agree that it is simpler but there is nothing stopping a "generic"
driver from just having PCI IDs for all of the existing bridges built
into it and then load it like a normal driver. Loading all of the
bridge PCI IDs into the "generic" driver gets rid of the need for
driver priorities.
--
Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@gmail.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-24 23:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-18 3:43 Patch to control VGA bus routing and active VGA device Jon Smirl
2005-01-18 17:46 ` Jesse Barnes
2005-01-18 19:38 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-01-18 21:06 ` Jesse Barnes
2005-01-22 19:04 ` Jon Smirl
2005-01-24 17:25 ` Jesse Barnes
2005-01-24 17:53 ` Jesse Barnes
[not found] ` <41ED3BD2.1090105@pobox.com>
[not found] ` <9e473391050122083822a7f81c@mail.gmail.com>
[not found] ` <200501240847.51208.jbarnes@sgi.com>
[not found] ` <20050124175131.GM31455@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
2005-01-24 19:17 ` Fwd: " Jon Smirl
2005-01-24 19:42 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-01-24 19:55 ` Russell King
2005-01-24 23:11 ` Jon Smirl [this message]
2005-01-25 4:24 ` Greg KH
2005-01-27 9:59 ` Jon Smirl
2005-01-27 16:28 ` Jesse Barnes
2005-01-28 17:32 ` Grant Grundler
2005-01-28 18:36 ` Jon Smirl
2005-01-28 19:15 ` Grant Grundler
2005-01-28 19:26 ` Jon Smirl
2005-01-28 19:34 ` Grant Grundler
2005-01-28 18:41 ` Jesse Barnes
2005-01-28 19:33 ` Grant Grundler
2005-01-28 19:41 ` Jesse Barnes
2005-01-28 20:12 ` Grant Grundler
2005-01-28 20:00 ` Matthew Wilcox
2005-01-28 20:07 ` Russell King
2005-01-31 16:01 ` Alan Cox
2005-02-01 6:38 ` Greg KH
2005-02-01 16:24 ` Jon Smirl
2005-01-30 7:51 ` Jon Smirl
2005-01-24 20:14 ` Matthew Wilcox
2005-01-24 20:22 ` Matthew Wilcox
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