Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932342AbWHaVSA (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Aug 2006 17:18:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932360AbWHaVSA (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Aug 2006 17:18:00 -0400 Received: from smtp6.orange.fr ([193.252.22.25]:2236 "EHLO smtp-msa-out06.orange.fr") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932342AbWHaVSA convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Aug 2006 17:18:00 -0400 X-ME-UUID: 20060831211759150.24CBE1C00293@mwinf0606.orange.fr Subject: Re: [RFC] Simple userspace interface for PCI drivers From: Xavier Bestel To: Lee Revell Cc: Greg KH , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner In-Reply-To: <1157058734.4386.142.camel@mindpipe> References: <20060830062338.GA10285@kroah.com> <1157013027.7566.515.camel@capoeira> <1157056749.4386.137.camel@mindpipe> <1157057934.24286.3.camel@bip.parateam.prv> <1157058734.4386.142.camel@mindpipe> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 23:18:33 +0200 Message-Id: <1157059114.24286.7.camel@bip.parateam.prv> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 686 Lines: 18 Le jeudi 31 ao?t 2006 ? 17:12 -0400, Lee Revell a ?crit : > On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 22:58 +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote: > > Precisely. How do you know the bugreport you received isn't caused by > > some weird binary userspace driver hosing the PCI bus ? > > Can't X, or any application that access hardware directly by > mmaping /dev/mem, do this now? Yes they can, but X's behavior is pretty well known by now :) and it's open source. Xav - 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/