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On 03/26/2010 07:14 PM, Cam Macdonell wrote:
>
>> I'm not familiar with the uio internals, but for the interface, an ioctl()
>> on the fd to assign an eventfd to an MSI vector.  Similar to ioeventfd, but
>> instead of mapping a doorbell to an eventfd, it maps a real MSI to an
>> eventfd.
>>      
> uio will never support ioctls.

Why not?

> Maybe irqcontrol could be extended?
>    

What's irqcontrol?

-- 
Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.