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From: Andreas Bombe <andreas.bombe@mytum.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Userspace I/O (UIO): Add support for userspace DMA
	(corrected)
Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2008 01:49:28 +0100
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On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 04:20:15PM +0100, Hans J. Koch wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 01:30:04PM +0100, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> > I like that idea of a seperate directory in sysfs. How about allocating
> > DMA memory by creating files in this directory.
> 
> Nice idea, but AFAICT sysfs doesn't support creating files from userspace.

For that there is configfs.