From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751322AbVHVWRn (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Aug 2005 18:17:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751311AbVHVWRm (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Aug 2005 18:17:42 -0400 Received: from omx1-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.179.11]:17822 "EHLO omx1.americas.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751322AbVHVWRm (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Aug 2005 18:17:42 -0400 Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 17:17:35 -0500 (CDT) From: Brent Casavant Reply-To: Brent Casavant To: Andrew Morton cc: pavel@suse.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] external interrupts In-Reply-To: <20050822144330.791ba7b3.akpm@osdl.org> Message-ID: <20050822165125.W325@chenjesu.americas.sgi.com> References: <20050819160716.U87000@chenjesu.americas.sgi.com> <20050820222159.GP516@openzaurus.ucw.cz> <20050822155852.N325@chenjesu.americas.sgi.com> <20050822144330.791ba7b3.akpm@osdl.org> Organization: "Silicon Graphics, Inc." MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Andrew Morton wrote: > Having an abstraction layer for a single client driver does seem a bit > pointless. It would become more pointful if other client drivers were to > pop up. > > Hence an option would be to merge an IOC4-specific driver which just does > what you need, no abstraction layer. If someone later comes up with a > requirement for a driver for similar-looking hardware then we can resurrect > the abstraction layer at that stage. Agreed. I'll look into what our plans are for additional or follow-on devices. Right now I see a need for this on the horizon, but it's not much more than a tiny indistiguishable dot. I'll have more info in a day or two. I'll also use that time to fix up the things that Christoph Hellwig noticed. Brent -- Brent Casavant If you had nothing to fear, bcasavan@sgi.com how then could you be brave? Silicon Graphics, Inc. -- Queen Dama, Source Wars