Re: C99 Initialisers

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 03:44:44PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> >>enums are easy  putting direct references would be annoying, but I also 
> >>argue it's potentially broken and wrong to store and export that 
> >>information publicly anyway.  The use of enums instead of pointers is 
> >>practically required because there is a many-to-one relationship of ids 
> >>to board information structs.
> > 
> > The hard part is that it's actually many-to-many.  The same card can have
> > multiple drivers.  one driver can support many cards.
> 
> pci_device_tables are (and must be) at per-driver granularity.  Sure the 
> same card can have multiple drivers, but that doesn't really matter in 
> this context, simply because I/we cannot break that per-driver 
> granularity.  Any solution must maintain per-driver granularity.

Aren't there any `hidden multi-function in single-function' PCI devices out
there? E.g. cards with a serial and a parallel port?

At least for the Zorro bus, these exist. E.g. the Ariadne card contains both
Ethernet and 2 parallel ports, so the Ariadne Ethernet driver and the (still to
be written) Ariadne parallel port driver are both drivers for the same Zorro
device.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

P.S. Yes, according to the IBM slides at LKS, m68k is dead ;-)
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