Re: [RFC][Intel-IOMMU] Fix for IOMMU early crash

[Muli Ben-Yehuda]

On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 01:05:24PM -0700, Keshavamurthy, Anil S wrote:

> Subject: [RFC][Intel-IOMMU] Fix for IOMMU early crash

This patch feels like a huge hack. See below.

> This patch removes sysdata from pci_dev struct and creates a new
> field called sys_data which is exclusively used by IOMMU driver to
> keep its per device context pointer.

Hmpf, why is this needed? with the pci_sysdata work that recently went
into mainline we have a void *iommu member in pci_sysdata which should
be all that's needed. Please elaborate if it's not enough for your
needs.

Thanks,
Muli
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