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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Peter Chubb <peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <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 19:16:41 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1110568598.15943.78.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16945.22566.593812.759201@wombat.chubb.wattle.id.au>

On Gwe, 2005-03-11 at 08:34, Peter Chubb wrote:
> 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(), usr_pci_unmap() and usr_pci_get_consistent().

mmap, munmap, mmap with M_SYNC 


  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-03-11 19:25 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
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 [this message]
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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