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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/1] PCI: Dynids - passing driver data
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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Brian King
eServer Storage I/O
IBM Linux Technology Center
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