Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 23:18:25 -0800
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Peter Chubb <peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: User mode drivers: part 2: PCI device handling (patch 1/2 for 2.6.11)
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On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 02:37:17PM +1100, Peter Chubb wrote:
> +/*
> + * The PCI subsystem is implemented as yet-another pseudo filesystem,
> + * albeit one that is never mounted.
> + * This is its magic number.
> + */
> +#define USR_PCI_MAGIC (0x12345678)

If you make it a real, mountable filesystem, then you don't need to have
any of your new syscalls, right?  Why not just do that instead?

thanks,

greg k-h
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