Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 20 Feb 2006 20:47:10 -0600 | From | Mark Maule <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] altix: export sn_pcidev_info_get |
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On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 08:17:14PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 10:23:37AM -0600, Mark Maule wrote: > > Export sn_pcidev_info_get. > > Tony or Andrew please back this out again. The only reason SGI wants this is > to support their illegal graphics driver, and no core code uses it. > > And Mark, please stop submitting such patches.
All I'm doing by exporting sn_pcidev_info_get is allowing a module to use the SGI SN_PCIDEV_BUSSOFT() macro which will tell a driver which piece of altix PCI hw its device is sitting behind (e.g. PCIIO_ASIC_TYPE_TIOCP et. al).
While I acknowledge that the gfx driver folks requested this, I don't understand what is "illegal" about this export, or the driver which wants to use it. What am I missing here?
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