Subject: Re: structural bus_space_handles
To: None <tech-kern@netbsd.org>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@astron.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/04/2006 17:10:13
In article <44830CB6.5070402@tadpole.com>,
Garrett D'Amore <garrett_damore@tadpole.com> wrote:
>
>SPARC64 uses a struct instead of an address or pointer for a
>bus_space_handle_t. This creates an ugly situation in some code (ath in
>particular), forcing us to have #ifdef __sparc64__ in this code to
>handle this case. (The Atheros HAL layer wants a single pointer for a
>bus_space_handle_t.)
>
>It would be cleaner to have a macro in bus.h, ala
>__BUS_SPACE_HANDLE_IS_STRUCT, so that I could test for that flag instead
>of having a test for a specific port. What do folks think?
Maybe a bus_space_get_handle() macro?
christos