Re: driverfs support for motherboard devices

From: Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)
Date: Tue Feb 05 2002 - 15:47:51 EST


On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 10:43:14AM -0800, Patrick Mochel wrote:
> I think that ide should get its own bus, as a child of the ide controller.
> I haven't looked at ide yet at all. But, on most modern systems, the ide
> controller is a function of the southbridge, so ide devices should go
> under that. Like what the usb stuff does now...

What about, say, a Promise PCI IDE card? You really need to reference
the parent PCI device when the is one.

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