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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Peter Chubb <peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: User mode drivers: part 2: PCI device handling (patch 1/2 for 2.6.11)
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 07:21:06 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050311152106.GA32584@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16945.22566.593812.759201@wombat.chubb.wattle.id.au>

On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 07:34:46PM +1100, Peter Chubb wrote:
> >>>>> "Greg" == Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> writes:
> 
> Greg> On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 02:37:17PM +1100, Peter Chubb wrote:
> >> +/* + * The PCI subsystem is implemented as yet-another pseudo
> >> filesystem, + * albeit one that is never mounted.  + * This is its
> >> magic number.  + */ +#define USR_PCI_MAGIC (0x12345678)
> 
> 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()

see mmap(2)

> , usr_pci_unmap()

see munmap(2)

In fact, both of the above can be done today from /proc/bus/pci/ right?

> and usr_pci_get_consistent().

Hm, this one might be different.  How about just opening and mmap a new
file for the pci device for this?

thanks,

greg k-h

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-03-11 15:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-11  3:37 User mode drivers: part 2: PCI device handling (patch 1/2 for 2.6.11) Peter Chubb
2005-03-11  7:18 ` Greg KH
2005-03-11  8:34   ` Peter Chubb
2005-03-11 10:31     ` Pavel Machek
2005-03-11 15:21     ` Greg KH [this message]
2005-03-11 16:45       ` Jesse Barnes
2005-03-12 22:43         ` Jon Smirl
2005-03-14  0:13       ` Peter Chubb
2005-03-14 17:46         ` Alan Cox
2005-03-11 19:16     ` Alan Cox
2005-03-12 10:49 ` Andrew Grover
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-03-11  5:18 Albert Cahalan
2005-03-11 19:15 ` Alan Cox
2005-03-11 21:04   ` Albert Cahalan
2005-03-14 13:34     ` Alan Cox

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