[Freemint-list] struct kerinfo extensions

[Alan Hourihane]

Not sure I understand this, why would re-ordering have any implication
on being able to call the function ?

Anyway, for XIF drivers you can just grab the PCI cookie and call the
functions as any other module, as realistically the plan a while back
was to port everything to kernel modules instead of XIF's, XFS's etc.

Alan.

On 27/09/17 02:02, Miro Kropáček wrote:
> Hi,
>
> before I waste my time on this doing it wrong... what if an XIF driver
> needs access to PCI BIOS? Currently only kernel modules can do that
> (via vec_pcibios in struct kentry) however what if we have a driver
> for PCI network card?
>
> I assume one can't just change (reorder) kerinfo's members (due to
> backward compatibility) so ... am I allowed to add something like
>
> struct kinfo_pcibios vec_pcibios;
>
> and bump version to "3" ? If so, what about this last member:
>
> /* reserved, set to 0 */
> longres2 [1];
>
> does it has some meaning for future extensions?
>
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