Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:19:32 -0800
From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 08/12] PAT 64b: coherent mmap and sysfs bin ioctl
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On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 03:55:51PM -0800, venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com wrote:
> Forward port of coherent-mmap.patch and sysfs-bin-ioctl.patch to x86 tree.
> 
> TBD: Do we need the ioctl interface to sysfs or get the type attribute
> through a different sysfs file. And then actually specify the attribute
> while doing pci_mmap_page_range ;-)

Woah!  No, no ioctls on sysfs files, sorry.  Not going to happen, do
this on a /dev file if you want to have ioctls...

thanks,

greg k-h
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