Re: [PATCH] Introduce PCI <-> CPU address conversion [1/2]

From: Matthew Wilcox
Date: Thu Oct 14 2004 - 15:39:47 EST


On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 07:00:06PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> For some architectures the sysdata is different for bus vs device, so
> yes, we do want strict typechecking.

How interesting. I was under the impression that dev->sysdata was always
a copy of the bus's. If that's not guaranteed, then we're just going
to have to dereference the additional pointer and use the bus' sysdata.

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