On 08/08/2017 04:54 PM, Andrew Lunn wrote: > On Tue, Aug 08, 2017 at 04:15:41PM +0300, Arkadi Sharshevsky wrote: >> Drivers may require driver specific information during the init stage. >> For example, memory based shared resource which should be segmented for >> different ASIC processes, such as FDB and LPM lookups. > > Hi Arkadi > > Have you looked around other subsystems to see if they have already > solved this problem? >
One obvious possible solution which other subsystems use is module prams, which is not acceptable. > How about GPUs? Do they have a similar requirement? Seems they are using module params. Furthermore, I checked the DRM API and such a feature is not supported. > > This seems like a generic problem for 'smart' peripherals. How would > you use dpipe with a GPU for example? > > Andrew > Thanks for the review. Arkadi
