linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] pci_bus conversion to struct device

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Message-Id: <200701291113.32061.jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Date:	Mon, 29 Jan 2007 11:13:31 -0800
From:	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>
To:	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>
Cc:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, Martin Mares <mj@....cz>,
	colpatch@...ibm.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-pci@...ey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz
Subject: Re: [RFC] pci_bus conversion to struct device

On Saturday, January 27, 2007 8:19 am, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > There are also some "legacy io" binary sysfs files in these
> > directories for those platforms that support it (#ifdef
> > HAVE_PCI_LEGACY), and I'm guessing that there is some user for them
> > out there, otherwise they would not have been added...
> >
> > Hm, only ia64 enables that option.  Matthew, do you care about
> > those files?
>
> I think they were added for Altix ... not sure who uses them.  Maybe
> X?

Yes.  Though like I said, those interfaces make sense on other platforms 
too, with weird ISA I/O and memory space mapping requirements.

Jesse
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