Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 7 Feb 2005 14:18:20 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/1] PCI: Dynids - passing driver data |
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On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 04:00:27PM -0600, brking@us.ibm.com wrote: > > Currently, code exists in the pci layer to allow userspace to specify > driver data when adding a pci dynamic id from sysfs. However, this data > is never used and there exists no way in the existing code to use it.
Which is a good thing, right? "driver_data" is usually a pointer to somewhere. Having userspace specify it would not be a good thing.
> This patch allows device drivers to indicate that they want driver data > passed to them on dynamic id adds by initializing use_driver_data in their > pci_driver->pci_dynids struct. The documentation has also been updated > to reflect this.
What driver wants to use this?
thanks,
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