On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 05:26:09PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > IMO, the entire handling of PCI Express port is overly complicated. Namely, I couldn't agree more. > instead of having the pcie_port_bus_type (which is buggy at the moment, as > described in http://marc.info/?l=linux-pci&m=123083608311844&w=4) it > would be better to register port services directly within the port driver using > a simple mechanism like an array (there are at most 4 services possible and > we know exactly what they are). > > I have an idea how to rework it, but first I'd like to know what your opinions > are. Yay. I've wanted to fix this for about three years now. > That said, I think the patch is fine anyway. Yeah, this is a good fix for the problem that exists today. -- Matthew Wilcox Intel Open Source Technology Centre "Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such a retrograde step." -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
