Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 5 Dec 2002 03:16:47 -0800 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] generic device DMA implementation |
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On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 12:15:30PM +0100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > Actually, the device model defines a bus "type" structure rather than a > "bus instance" structure (well, at least it did last I looked a couple > of weeks ago). That's a problem I beleive here, as those functions are > really a property of a given bus instance. One solution would eventually > be to have the set of functions pointers in the generic struct device > and by default be copied from parent to child.
On an unrelated note, a "bus instance" structure would seem to be required for proper handling of bridges in combination with PCI segments.
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