On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 20:47 -0600, Mark Maule wrote: > On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 08:17:14PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 10:23:37AM -0600, Mark Maule wrote: > > > Export sn_pcidev_info_get. > > > > Tony or Andrew please back this out again. The only reason SGI wants this is > > to support their illegal graphics driver, and no core code uses it. > > > > And Mark, please stop submitting such patches. > > All I'm doing by exporting sn_pcidev_info_get is allowing a module to use > the SGI SN_PCIDEV_BUSSOFT() macro which will tell a driver which piece of > altix PCI hw its device is sitting behind (e.g. PCIIO_ASIC_TYPE_TIOCP et. al). > > While I acknowledge that the gfx driver folks requested this, I don't > understand what is "illegal" about this export, or the driver which wants > to use it. What am I missing here? so you would have no objection to making this a _GPL export ? - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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