Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S272251AbTHNKHq (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Aug 2003 06:07:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S272253AbTHNKHp (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Aug 2003 06:07:45 -0400 Received: from mail2.sonytel.be ([195.0.45.172]:55781 "EHLO witte.sonytel.be") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S272251AbTHNKHo (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Aug 2003 06:07:44 -0400 Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 12:05:28 +0200 (MEST) From: Geert Uytterhoeven To: Jeff Garzik cc: Matthew Wilcox , Russell King , Greg KH , "David S. Miller" , rddunlap@osdl.org, davej@redhat.com, Linux Kernel Development , kernel-janitor-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: C99 Initialisers In-Reply-To: <3F3A9FA1.8000708@pobox.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1850 Lines: 41 On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 03:44:44PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > >>enums are easy putting direct references would be annoying, but I also > >>argue it's potentially broken and wrong to store and export that > >>information publicly anyway. The use of enums instead of pointers is > >>practically required because there is a many-to-one relationship of ids > >>to board information structs. > > > > The hard part is that it's actually many-to-many. The same card can have > > multiple drivers. one driver can support many cards. > > pci_device_tables are (and must be) at per-driver granularity. Sure the > same card can have multiple drivers, but that doesn't really matter in > this context, simply because I/we cannot break that per-driver > granularity. Any solution must maintain per-driver granularity. Aren't there any `hidden multi-function in single-function' PCI devices out there? E.g. cards with a serial and a parallel port? At least for the Zorro bus, these exist. E.g. the Ariadne card contains both Ethernet and 2 parallel ports, so the Ariadne Ethernet driver and the (still to be written) Ariadne parallel port driver are both drivers for the same Zorro device. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert P.S. Yes, according to the IBM slides at LKS, m68k is dead ;-) -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/