Messages in this thread | | | From | "Tom Leete" <> | Subject | Re: New kernel/resource.c | Date | Sat, 17 Jul 1999 00:51:07 -0400 |
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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
> >On Fri, 16 Jul 1999, Tom Leete wrote: >> >> To me, the problem with calling it "pci" is that it's likely to be taken >> literally. People writing for other bus archs will not know or forget that >> it's for them too. People writing for pci will add pci specializations to >> it. > >But other bus architectures are not even supposed to use it! > >It's really only meant to be used by PC IO subsystems (ie PCI, ISA etc). >So it really =is= meant to be specific to one bus type (admittedly that >bus type is a superset of PCI itself, but it's NOT supposed to ever be >used as a "every bus" kind of resource). > > Linus
<Light Dawns>
Ahhh. I'd misunderstood then.
I was thinking that kernel/resource.c was a general distributed allocator of ports, addresses, etc. & that it was also for USB, firewire, whoever needed such things.
Sorry, and thanks, Tom /* Back to the source */
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