Hi,
This still means we have two copies of same data
and need to maintain code that keeps them in sync,
even if that is called just at init time.
No. There is nothing to keep in sync. And there is no extra copy of data.
Today you have pci_set_*() calls somewhere in PCIDeviceInfo->init().
I'd like to see them replaced with PCIDeviceInfo->$field + setup in
common code. The information that device $foo has vendor id 42 and
device id 4711 (and other properties) just moves from code to data.
It is static information, it should be static data. And having the
information in a well defined place in a data structure instead of
hidden somewhere in the ->init() code makes it alot easier to reuse the
information for something else. That is the whole point.
cheers,
Gerd
