Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Specifying properly the PCI driver model on all linux archite | Date | Wed, 3 Nov 1999 19:06:16 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> What are 2.2 drivers supposed to do when claiming PCI memory space, and are > these routines actually used by any drivers? At a guess, I would just > duplicate the macro from the 2.3 sources back into 2.2 so that the driver > works with either but uses the new names.
For 2.3.x its important people claim memory resources really. For 2.2.x it doesn't arise in the same way. 2.3.x is trying to support hot-swap PCI and cardbus properly. That meant we had to start tracking a resource that in hindsight we might have wanted to track before.
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