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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
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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.


Bill
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