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On Aug 8, 2005, at 6:17 PM, Adam Belay wrote: > On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 09:00:21AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > >> On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 11:11:45AM -0700, Matthew Gilbert wrote: >> >>> Below is a patch that adds an additional resource class to the >>> > platform > >>> resource types. This is to support additional resources that need to >>> > be passed > >>> to drivers without overloading the existing specific types. In my >>> > case, I need > >>> to send clock information to the driver to enable power management. >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Matthew Gilbert <mgilbert@mvista.com> >>> >> >> Hm, you do realize that Pat's no longer the driver core maintainer? >> > :) > >> >> Anyway, Russell and Adam, any objections to this patch? >> > > I'm not sure if I agree with this patch. "struct resource" is used > primarily for > I/O resource assignment. Although I agree we may need to add new > IORESOURCE types, > I'm not sure if clock data belongs here. I don't think "start" and > "end" would be > useful for most platform data. Could you provide more information > about > this > specific issue and resource type? Maybe we could create a new sysfs > attribute? I would also like to understand more about what the need is here. We have clock data and such but use platform_data for it. - kumar - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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