On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Andrew Morton wrote: > Having an abstraction layer for a single client driver does seem a bit > pointless. It would become more pointful if other client drivers were to > pop up. > > Hence an option would be to merge an IOC4-specific driver which just does > what you need, no abstraction layer. If someone later comes up with a > requirement for a driver for similar-looking hardware then we can resurrect > the abstraction layer at that stage.
Agreed. I'll look into what our plans are for additional or follow-on devices. Right now I see a need for this on the horizon, but it's not much more than a tiny indistiguishable dot. I'll have more info in a day or two. I'll also use that time to fix up the things that Christoph Hellwig noticed. Brent -- Brent Casavant If you had nothing to fear, [EMAIL PROTECTED] how then could you be brave? Silicon Graphics, Inc. -- Queen Dama, Source Wars - 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/
