From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261756AbULPQ47 (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Dec 2004 11:56:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261767AbULPQ4g (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Dec 2004 11:56:36 -0500 Received: from [213.146.154.40] ([213.146.154.40]:13758 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261744AbULPQ4G (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Dec 2004 11:56:06 -0500 Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 16:56:02 +0000 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Jesse Barnes Cc: linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, willy@debian.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] add legacy I/O port & memory APIs to /proc/bus/pci Message-ID: <20041216165602.GA10560@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Jesse Barnes , linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, willy@debian.org References: <200412160850.20223.jbarnes@engr.sgi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200412160850.20223.jbarnes@engr.sgi.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.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.