Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 14 Dec 2006 18:26:26 +0000 | From | Alan <> | Subject | Re: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19] |
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> Think of uio as just a "class" of driver, like input or v4l. It's still > up to the driver writer to provide a proper bus interface to the > hardware (pci, usb, etc.) in order for the device to work at all.
Understood. That leads me to ask another question of the folks who deal with a lot of these cards. How many could reasonably be described by the following
bar to map, offset, length, ro/rw, root/user, local-offset (x n ?) interrupt function or null
It seems if we have a lot of this kind of card that all fit that pattern it might actually get more vendors submitting updates if we had a single pci driver that took a struct of the above as the device_id field so vendors had to write five lines of IRQ code, a struct and update a PCI table ? That seems to have mostly worked with all the parallel/serial boards.
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