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    SubjectRe: C99 Initialisers
    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

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