On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 02:31:15PM -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> The driver assumes only a single instance of the device. But PCI being
> what it is, it's often possible to have multiple cards, so you might
> want some protection in case you trip over more than one.
Yes. And even with that protection please move all the global variables
into some per-device structure. That makes the code a lot more understandable
and future-proof in case multiple devices of this type may appear somewhere.
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