In article ,
Tobias Erichsen wrote:
>Are there any plans to move the functionality of this library into some
>kind of PCI-busdriver and then change the libpci to just make calls into
>this driver?

Yes.


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I've been told that there are indeed plans in this direction. Such a
scheme would allow global reservation of PCI devices, which is very
useful when for example two pci devices that need the same driver are
present on a system. (You can then just load two drivers. the first
driver instance reserves the first soundcard, the second instance
reserves the second...et voila