Re: [RFC PATCH 08/12] PAT 64b: coherent mmap and sysfs bin ioctl

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[email protected] writes:

> 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 ;-)

This ioctl is not connected up.  So regardless of the wisdom of ioctls on
sysfs adding the infrastructure and then not using it is broken.

> And when this interface is in place, X server has to use this interface for WC
> mapping.

Eric
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