> 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. - R. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
