Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 12 Feb 2008 13:08:46 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: multiple drivers, single device |
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Roland Dreier wrote: > > The work I'm doing here is for stupid PCI firmware engineers, who have > > created devices that are different things, all bound up under the same > > PCI device. I'm thinking of watchdog timers and random number > > generator and i2c controller on the same PCI device, or even the more > > basic, frame buffer and DRM access to the same PCI video device. > > > > The OLPC is a good example of hardware that needs this kind of > > functionality. > > Sounds interesting. I've been meaning to work on this too for quite a > while, but I'm glad to see you beat me to it. > > An example of an in-tree use case for this would be the mlx4 drivers-- > you can look at drivers/net/mlx4/intf.c to see the simple stupid > solution I came up with to allow an IB and a NIC (not yet upstream) > driver to share the same PCI device. A good test for your stuff would > be if it simplifies the code from the ad hoc solution I came up with.
Our APIs are written such that the PCI device probe function is the starting point for registering IB and NIC. No need for anything new.
Jeff
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