Re: [PATCH 1/1] PCI: Dynids - passing driver data

[Brian King]

Martin Mares wrote:
> Hello!
>
>
> > > Which is a good thing, right?  "driver_data" is usually a pointer to
> > > somewhere.  Having userspace specify it would not be a good thing.
> >
> > That depends on the driver usage, and the patch allows it to be 
> > configurable and defaults to not being used.
>
>
> Maybe we could just define the operation as cloning of an entry
> for another device ID, including its driver_data.

Possibly. That would potentially require a lot of parameters to 
userspace. We would really need to duplicate all the currently existing 
sysfs parms to accomplish this.

--
Brian King
eServer Storage I/O
IBM Linux Technology Center
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