Re: C99 Initialisers

[Andrey Panin]

On 226, 08 14, 2003 at 12:05:28PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > > On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 03:44:44PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > >>enums are easy  putting direct references would be annoying, but I also 
> > >>argue it's potentially broken and wrong to store and export that 
> > >>information publicly anyway.  The use of enums instead of pointers is 
> > >>practically required because there is a many-to-one relationship of ids 
> > >>to board information structs.
> > > 
> > > The hard part is that it's actually many-to-many.  The same card can have
> > > multiple drivers.  one driver can support many cards.
> > 
> > pci_device_tables are (and must be) at per-driver granularity.  Sure the 
> > same card can have multiple drivers, but that doesn't really matter in 
> > this context, simply because I/we cannot break that per-driver 
> > granularity.  Any solution must maintain per-driver granularity.
> 
> Aren't there any `hidden multi-function in single-function' PCI devices out
> there? E.g. cards with a serial and a parallel port?
 
Look at drivers/parport/parport-serial.c, it contains whole zoo of such beasts :)

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