[PATCH RFC]: Generic Linux multi-domain PCI handling

Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Tue Jan 3 13:14:49 PST 2006


On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 01:05:08PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
 > From: Ian Romanick <idr at us.ibm.com>
 > Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2006 12:57:35 -0800
 > 
 > > That's actually a very good idea!  I'll look into that.  How stable
 > > is that libpci.a ABI?  Meaning, would doing this add a dependency to
 > > X that turns out to be a major pain-in-the-behind to track?
 > 
 > I'm not so sure, but frankly I think one possible way to eliminate
 > these concerns is to talk to the pciutils authors and ask them if they
 > are willing to adjust the licensing such that a copy could be included
 > in the X.org tree.

or ask them if they'll finally (after how many years?) make it a shared library.

		Dave




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