Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 14 Jul 1999 16:38:24 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: New kernel/resource.c |
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On Wed, 14 Jul 1999, David Hinds wrote: > > Thinking about it some more, the only way I see to handle all the > problem cases I can think of, is to have two separate resource trees > for each type of resource, one for driver ownership, and one for > hardware routing, rather than one unified tree. So we'd have two > trees like:
I don't see the point.
A PCMCIA card has to allocate its resources from within the PCMCIA region. So it makes tons of sense to just say so. So a PCMCIA driver would do
request_resource(&pcmcia_io_resource, &my_io_resource);
while a "direct" PCI driver would use
request_resource(&pci_io_resource, &my_io_resource);
and I definitely don't at all understand why you'd want to have two tables that show the same thing..
Linus
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