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Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 19:34:46 +1100
From: Peter Chubb <peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
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Subject: Re: User mode drivers: part 2: PCI device handling (patch 1/2 for 2.6.11)
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>>>>> "Greg" == Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> writes:

Greg> 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)

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


The only call that would go is usr_pci_open() -- you'd still need 
usr_pci_map(), usr_pci_unmap() and usr_pci_get_consistent().

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Dr Peter Chubb  http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au  peterc AT gelato.unsw.edu.au
The technical we do immediately,  the political takes *forever*

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