From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Subject: Re: PATCH: switch maestro3 to new ac97
Date: 11 Jul 2003 22:56:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1057960602.20629.54.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030711184822.GE16037@gtf.org>
On Gwe, 2003-07-11 at 19:48, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> I note another positive attribute as well:
>
> This new AC97 stuff makes object lifetime much more obvious, and makes
> it easy for someone to add refcounting later, if that comes up.
>
> This patch is an excellent example of such.
Thats actually intentional. The current stuff doesn't need the
ref counting because it uses the coded locks for unload v I/O
locking, but people are adding a lot of stuff to ac97 now.
AC97 is DAC/ADC and GPIO pins, hence its showing up used for battery
reporting, touchscreens and other goodies.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-11 21:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-11 18:15 Alan Cox
2003-07-11 18:48 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-07-11 21:56 ` Alan Cox [this message]
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