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David Miller wrote: > From: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org> > Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2007 00:59:53 -0600 > >> On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 03:46:30PM -0700, Auke Kok wrote: >>> Currently there are 97 occurrences where drivers need the pci >>> revision ID. We can do this once for all devices. Even the pci >>> subsystem needs the revision several times for quirks. The extra >>> u8 member pads out nicely in the pci_dev struct. >> Good idea. I always wondered why we read the invariants so often >> in the code. > > BTW, if you add code like this, you also have to add the > appropriate code to do this for all the platforms that probe > the PCI bus using a firmware device tree like sparc64 > and powerpc do. yes absolutely, I'll try to see if I can come up with that. Also, I'll add reading the class part at the same time since that just makes sense. Auke - 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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