Re: CFT/RFC: New cardbus resource allocation

Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)
Thu, 7 Nov 2002 10:37:12 +0000

On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 01:25:40PM +0300, Ivan Kokshaysky wrote:
> Looks quite reasonable.
> Note that we don't need 2 similar functions in setup-res.c -
> pci_assign_resource() can be easily converted to use your
> pci_alloc_parent_resource(), and pci_assign_bus_resource() can
> be killed then.

I looked at that and decided it wasn't practical. pci_assign_resource()
needs the parent resource to pass it down to the architecture specific
layers. Unfortunately, trying to get that out of
pci_alloc_parent_resource() makes the API rather disgusting IMHO.

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Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)                The developer of ARM Linux
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