Hi Martyn, Apologies for the delay, I was on vacation recently. > I think we can probably merge vme_device_id and vme_dev. > > Since we have a pointer to the vme_bridge, the bus number in vme_device_id is > kinda superfluous. > > The direction we are heading in makes the slot number far less important, in > some ways it becomes more of an optional information field (in pre-vme64 racks > we probably won't know which slot the device we are bound to is in anyway). > Basically moving from a binding mechanism like PCI to a binding mechanism > closer to ISA, which matches the (widely used, more historic subset) of > capabilites of the VME bus. I think we can just move the slot number to > vme_dev and do away with vme_device_id entirely. I agree with this. I have, however, done this in a separate patch for clarity. (I have resent this patch (in RESEND v6) unchanged so you can ack it there). Thanks! -- /manohar _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
