Subject: Re: User mode drivers: part 2: PCI device handling (patch 1/2 for
	2.6.11)
From: Albert Cahalan <albert@users.sf.net>
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Cc: peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au
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Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 00:18:27 -0500
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Peter Chubb writes:

> There are three new system calls:
>
>   long   usr_pci_open(int bus, int slot, int function, __u64 dma_mask);
>          Returns a filedescriptor for the PCI device described 
>          by bus,slot,function.  It also enables the device, and sets it 
>          up as a bus-mastering DMA device, with the specified dma mask.

You forgot the PCI domain (a.k.a. hose, phb...) number.
Also, you might encode bus,slot,function according to
the PCI spec. So that gives:

long usr_pci_open(unsigned pcidomain, unsigned devspec, __u64 dmamask);

(with the user library returning an int instead of long)


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