From: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
To: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Subject: Re: [RFC] pci_bus conversion to struct device
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 11:13:31 -0800
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On Saturday, January 27, 2007 8:19 am, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > There are also some "legacy io" binary sysfs files in these
> > directories for those platforms that support it (#ifdef
> > HAVE_PCI_LEGACY), and I'm guessing that there is some user for them
> > out there, otherwise they would not have been added...
> >
> > Hm, only ia64 enables that option.  Matthew, do you care about
> > those files?
>
> I think they were added for Altix ... not sure who uses them.  Maybe
> X?

Yes.  Though like I said, those interfaces make sense on other platforms 
too, with weird ISA I/O and memory space mapping requirements.

Jesse
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