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SubjectRe: [PATCH/RFC] I/O-check interface for driver's error handling
Linas Vepstas wrote:
>>If their defaults are no-ops, device
>>maintainers who develops their driver on not-implemented arch should be
>>more careful.
>
> Why? People who write device drivers already know if/when they need to
> disable interrupts, and so they already disable if they need it.

OK, I'll remake them as no-ops.
Nothing will start unless trust in driver folks.

> p.s. I would like to have iochk_read() take struct pci_dev * as an
> argument. (I could store a pointer to pci_dev in the "cookie" but
> that seems odd).

I'd like to store the pointer and handle all only with the cookie...
Or is it needed to pass different device to iochk_clear() and iochk_read()?


Thanks,
H.Seto

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