Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 23:38:33 +0100
From: Martin Mares <mj@ucw.cz>
To: Brian King <brking@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] PCI: Dynids - passing driver data
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Hello!

> >Which is a good thing, right?  "driver_data" is usually a pointer to
> >somewhere.  Having userspace specify it would not be a good thing.
> 
> That depends on the driver usage, and the patch allows it to be 
> configurable and defaults to not being used.

Maybe we could just define the operation as cloning of an entry
for another device ID, including its driver_data.

				Have a nice fortnight
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Martin `MJ' Mares   <mj@ucw.cz>   http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
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