Re: [PATCH 2/3] staging: vme: add struct vme_dev for VME devices

[Manohar Vanga]

Hi Martyn,

Apologies for the delay, I was on vacation recently.

> I think we can probably merge vme_device_id and vme_dev.
> 
> Since we have a pointer to the vme_bridge, the bus number in vme_device_id is
> kinda superfluous.
> 
> The direction we are heading in makes the slot number far less important, in
> some ways it becomes more of an optional information field (in pre-vme64 racks
> we probably won't know which slot the device we are bound to is in anyway).
> Basically moving from a binding mechanism like PCI to a binding mechanism
> closer to ISA, which matches the (widely used, more historic subset) of
> capabilites of the VME bus. I think we can just move the slot number to
> vme_dev and do away with vme_device_id entirely.

I agree with this. I have, however, done this in a separate patch for clarity.
(I have resent this patch (in RESEND v6) unchanged so you can ack it there).

Thanks!

-- 
/manohar
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