Re: [PATCH] altix: export sn_pcidev_info_get

[Mark Maule]

On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 08:17:14PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 10:23:37AM -0600, Mark Maule wrote:
> > Export sn_pcidev_info_get.
> 
> Tony or Andrew please back this out again.  The only reason SGI wants this is
> to support their illegal graphics driver, and no core code uses it.
> 
> And Mark, please stop submitting such patches.

All I'm doing by exporting sn_pcidev_info_get is allowing a module to use
the SGI SN_PCIDEV_BUSSOFT() macro which will tell a driver which piece of
altix PCI hw its device is sitting behind (e.g. PCIIO_ASIC_TYPE_TIOCP et. al).

While I acknowledge that the gfx driver folks requested this, I don't
understand what is "illegal" about this export, or the driver which wants
to use it.  What am I missing here?

Mark
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