Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 2 Mar 2006 13:31:08 -0600 (CST) | From | Kumar Gala <> | Subject | removal of EXPORT_SYMBOL(insert_resource)? |
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I have a situation that I believe warrants leaving insert_resource as an exported API.
I've got a bus implementation that it done as a module. While I'm more than happy to provide this bus implementation to be included in the mainline, I dont think it makes much sense to do so. The code is only useful to an extremely small handful of people. If we want to clutter the kernel with it I'm happy to provide a patch for it.
The situation I have is a FPGA connect over PCI. The FPGA implements a number of different "functions" but uses PCI more like an SoC bus than a true PCI device. Anyways, in some discussions with gregkh, it was suggested the best thing was to create a new bus type that the "fpga" drivers would bind to.
I use insert_resource to handle registering the MMIO regions for each device (similar to how platform devices are registered).
- kumar
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