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Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 12:51:48 +0000
From: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
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On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 04:51:21PM -0800, Adam J. Richter wrote:
 > 	This code now tries to implement almost all of the devfs
 > functionality that anything outside of arch/ia64/sn uses.  The most
 > significant except that I'm aware of is the ability to create a plain
 > file with custom file operations, which is done the Memory Type Range
 > Register code, but that code also provides a proc interface for the
 > same thing, and I think the proc interface is what everyone uses right
 > now anyhow.

Ignore other mail. -ENOTAWAKEYET
testgart uses /proc/mtrr too, and thinking about it I guess X does
too, or it would break in the non-devfs case.

		Dave

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