Re: [patch 1/5] Staging: VME Framework for the Linux Kernel

[Martyn Welch]

Emilio G. Cota wrote:
> Martyn Welch wrote:
>   
> > Not the same question, but I'd agree - that would probably break the  
> > current model I have proposed. *However*, providing a resource  
> > management layer as you have proposed above the basic resource  
> > management my API provides would resolve that without added complexity  
> > in the bridge drivers themselves.
> >     
>
> It wouldn't break it, the model simply couldn't give you more
> than 8 windows-->8 devices.
>   
Unless the devices we the same and the driver reused one window.
> I think it should be the bridge the one that manages its
> own resources, not someone else.
>   
I still think that layering this above the driver is better - it only 
needs to be written once rather than replicated for each bridge chip.
> I'm coding a layer that works this way, we'll see how it looks.
>
>   
Much obliged.
> > Yes. If I understand you correctly, your saying that management of the  
> > devices in the VME address space is a system configuration issue.
> >     
>
> It obviously is. We cannot impose the users where they should
> plug their devices or which pins on the boards they should
> tweak. They build their crates --> they tell the kernel about
> them.
>   
Agreed.

Martyn

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