From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 16:56:02 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] add legacy I/O port & memory APIs to /proc/bus/pci Message-Id: <20041216165602.GA10560@infradead.org> List-Id: References: <200412160850.20223.jbarnes@engr.sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <200412160850.20223.jbarnes@engr.sgi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Jesse Barnes Cc: linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, willy@debian.org On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 08:50:19AM -0800, Jesse Barnes wrote: > This patch documents the /proc/bus/pci interface and adds some optional > architecture specific APIs for accessing legacy I/O port and memory space. > This is necessary on platforms where legacy I/O port space doesn't 'soft > fail' like it does on PCs, and is useful for systems that can route legacy > space to different PCI busses. Please don't add more interfaces to procfs. And ioctl() on procfs is even more evil.