On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 12:26:21PM +0200, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> Hi Shaohua,
>
> > > > The patch allows calling request_firmware without a 'struct device'.
> > > > It appears we just need a name here from 'struct device'. I changed it
> > > > to use a kobject as Patrick suggested.
> > > > Next patch will use the new API to request firmware (microcode) for a CPU.
> > >
> > > But a cpu does have a struct device. Why not just use that?
> > It's a sysdev, no 'struct device' in it, IIRC.
>
> do we really need to differentiate between sysdev and device anymore. I
> recall a plan to unify all devices, but I might be wrong.
I don't think we need to keep them different anymore, they should be
made the same. Then issues like this will not happen.
And it will make your driver code smaller :)
thanks,
greg k-h
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