Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261308AbVCKTZe (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Mar 2005 14:25:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261335AbVCKTWQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Mar 2005 14:22:16 -0500 Received: from clock-tower.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:18841 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261563AbVCKTSe (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Mar 2005 14:18:34 -0500 Subject: Re: User mode drivers: part 2: PCI device handling (patch 1/2 for 2.6.11) From: Alan Cox To: Peter Chubb Cc: Greg KH , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <16945.22566.593812.759201@wombat.chubb.wattle.id.au> References: <16945.4717.402555.893411@berry.gelato.unsw.EDU.AU> <20050311071825.GA28613@kroah.com> <16945.22566.593812.759201@wombat.chubb.wattle.id.au> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1110568598.15943.78.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 19:16:41 +0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 620 Lines: 15 On Gwe, 2005-03-11 at 08:34, Peter Chubb wrote: > 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(). mmap, munmap, mmap with M_SYNC - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/