Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 07 Feb 2005 16:59:38 -0600 | From | Brian King <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/1] PCI: Dynids - passing driver data |
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Martin Mares wrote: > 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.
Possibly. That would potentially require a lot of parameters to userspace. We would really need to duplicate all the currently existing sysfs parms to accomplish this.
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