Re: [PATCH] pci: Allow read/write access to I/O port resources

[Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>]

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Alex Williamson wrote:
> PCI sysfs resource files currently only allow mmap'ing, which doesn't
> work on all architectures, particularly x86.  Add read/write to
> allow access to these device regions using sysfs.

I think you should update that description a bit. It took me some time to find 
out you are not talking about mmap() on PCI resource files in general, but 
those that are backed by I/O BARs. The other ones work fine on x86 with mmap().

> +static ssize_t
> +pci_resource_io(struct file *filp, struct kobject *kobj,
> +               struct bin_attribute *attr, char *buf,
> +               loff_t off, size_t count, int write)
> +{

The "write" can be bool.

> +       struct pci_dev *pdev = to_pci_dev(container_of(kobj,
> +                                                      struct device, 
kobj));
> +       struct resource *res = (struct resource *)attr->private;

No need to cast here, private is void* anyway.

Eike

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