Re: More general resource allocation scheme: comments??

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Thu, 17 Jun 1999 13:31:01 +0100 (BST)


> Use the existing resource table for IO ports, only have a new special
> kind of entry with name=NULL, which means "occupied". If a driver

Basically split claim and use. Yes

> Does this seem like a reasonable way to proceed? I like it because it
> doesn't introduce any API discontinuities. Should I go ahead and
> implement it?

It seems to do what I need. Remember to add main memory to the memory resource
table 8)

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