Re: [PATCH 1/2] vga: implements VGA arbitration on Linux

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Date: Thu Jul 16 2009 - 20:25:10 EST


On Thu, 2009-07-16 at 09:41 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > We don't have a device in this case, vga arb is more of an abstraction than
> > an actual device.
> >
> > I suppose if we were feeling crazy we could add a platform device for it.
>
> Probably a good idea and it gives you something more meaningful to hang
> the list of devices being arbitrated.

That's a good point, it would be useful for diagnosis purposes at least
to have a sysfs dir with symlinks to the devices being arbitrated.

Cheers,
Ben.


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