On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 12:17:39PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> hmm, yes, well. There's a certain amount of sloppiness allowed with
> it being a macro, in that bus->sysdata and dev->sysdata have the same
> value so it works both ways.
Well, it's true for many architectures, but not for all.
IIRC, bus->sysdata != dev->sysdata on sparc and parisc.
> Of course, this prohibits any architecture
> from implementing it as a function, so we really should make up our minds
> which it is to be. It sounds like bus is more generally useful than dev,
> so I'll make that explicit.
Great.
Ivan.
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Sun Jun 15 2003 - 22:00:20 EST