On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 10:30:04AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Jeff Garzik wrote:
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> > Greg KH 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 d
Greg KH 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,
Greg KH wrote:
Except that the individual drivers are a lot of the time written by
different people, live in different portions of the tree, and are
combined into different combinations depending on the chipset.
Yes -- the worst case is that people have to work together, and it
tweaks people w
On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Greg KH 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
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 12:56:35PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Greg KH 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
>> gene
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 eve
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 09:42:20AM -0800, 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 a
> 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, fr
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 11:24:09AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Greg KH wrote:
>> [1] Hopefully the "multiple drivers for a single device" feature people
>> have been asking for for years will be landing soon, of course the
>> number of odd places in the kernel that made the assumption that we
>> co
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