Re: Ideas for abstracting driver IO from bus implementation?

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 17 Mar 1999 15:34:53 +0000 (GMT)

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> Handling this is my ultimate aim with my configuration manager. As well as the
> standard four types of resource token (irq, dma, io & mem), I'd like to be
> able to have drivers put up other types (such as a SCSI device token or a
> parallel device token, though some generic type of indirection token may be
> better).

I2O wants a fairly wide set of tokens - This is a problem I've already hit
I need to be able to reserve PCI devices. The MCA bus code gets this right
with its mark as used/ mark as unused functions.

Alan

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