On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 04:19:32PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 03:55:51PM -0800, [email protected] wrote:
> > Forward port of coherent-mmap.patch and sysfs-bin-ioctl.patch to x86 tree.
> >
> > TBD: Do we need the ioctl interface to sysfs or get the type attribute
> > through a different sysfs file. And then actually specify the attribute
> > while doing pci_mmap_page_range ;-)
>
> Woah! No, no ioctls on sysfs files, sorry. Not going to happen, do
> this on a /dev file if you want to have ioctls...
That would require putting the whole PCI bus hierarchy into /dev.
We could do that, but for what would we still need /sys then ? @)
Anyways if you can suggest a better interface please do, but please think first.
-Andi
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