linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] vga: implements VGA arbitration on Linux

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Message-Id: <1247790263.27937.75.camel@pasglop>
Date:	Fri, 17 Jul 2009 10:24:23 +1000
From:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc:	Dave Airlie <airlied@...il.com>, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	Tiago Vignatti <tiago.vignatti@...ia.com>,
	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>,
	Dave Airlie <airlied@...hat.com>, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] vga: implements VGA arbitration on Linux

On Thu, 2009-07-16 at 09:41 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > We don't have a device in this case, vga arb is more of an abstraction than
> > an actual device.
> > 
> > I suppose if we were feeling crazy we could add a platform device for it.
> 
> Probably a good idea and it gives you something more meaningful to hang
> the list of devices being arbitrated.

That's a good point, it would be useful for diagnosis purposes at least
to have a sysfs dir with symlinks to the devices being arbitrated.

Cheers,
Ben.


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