From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Peter Chubb <peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: User mode drivers: part 2: PCI device handling (patch 1/2 for 2.6.11)
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 23:18:25 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050311071825.GA28613@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16945.4717.402555.893411@berry.gelato.unsw.EDU.AU>
On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 02:37:17PM +1100, Peter Chubb wrote:
> +/*
> + * The PCI subsystem is implemented as yet-another pseudo filesystem,
> + * albeit one that is never mounted.
> + * This is its magic number.
> + */
> +#define USR_PCI_MAGIC (0x12345678)
If you make it a real, mountable filesystem, then you don't need to have
any of your new syscalls, right? Why not just do that instead?
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-11 7:19 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 [this message]
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
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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