Re: 2.5.20 - Xircom PCI Cardbus doesn't work

[Kai Germaschewski]

On Fri, 14 Jun 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> I suspect that forcing resource assignment into "pci_enable_device()"
> should fix that too.
> 
> Although there should probably be some way for the driver to tell which
> resources it cares about (some drivers care about the PCI ROM's, for
> example, others don't. Some drivers don't care about the IO region, and
> others don't care about the MEM region). So the _right_ answer might be to
> pass in a bitmap to "pci_enable_device()", which tells the enable code
> which parts the driver really cares about..

That reminds me of some idea I had been thinking about for some time: 

What about adding some pci_request_irq() and pci_request_{,mem_}_region,
which would allow for some cleanup of ever-recurring code sequences in
drivers, and which at the same time would allow for the above?
pci_request_mem_region() might even include the ioremap() as well ;)

And yeah, eventually, that might be better done at 'struct device' level,
but that doesn't make a difference to the conceptual idea.

--Kai