From: Nicholas Miell <nmiell@attbi.com>
To: Patrick Mochel <mochel@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: the userspace side of driverfs
Date: 10 Sep 2002 21:52:53 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1031719975.1397.39.camel@entropy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0209102122520.1057-100000@cherise.pdx.osdl.net>
On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 21:38, Patrick Mochel wrote:
>
> On 10 Sep 2002, Nicholas Miell wrote:
>
> > - The "resource" files export resource structs, however the flags member
> > of the struct uses bits that aren't exported by the kernel and are
> > likely to change in the future. Also, some of the flags bits are
> > reserved for use by the bus that the resource lives on, but the bus type
> > isn't specified by the resource file, which requires the app to parse
> > the path name in order to figure out which bus the resource refers to.
>
> The flags bit is a good point, and should probably be removed.
>
You need the flags, otherwise you can't distinguish dma/irq/mmio/ports.
The other flag bits are interesting, too.
- Nicholas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-11 4:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-11 1:18 the userspace side of driverfs Nicholas Miell
2002-09-11 2:16 ` Greg KH
2002-09-11 4:38 ` Patrick Mochel
2002-09-11 4:52 ` Nicholas Miell [this message]
2002-09-11 7:00 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2002-09-11 20:05 ` Nicholas Miell
2002-09-12 1:25 ` jw schultz
2002-09-12 4:13 ` Matt Domsch
2002-09-12 5:11 ` jw schultz
2002-09-12 16:41 ` Patrick Mochel
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