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SubjectRe: /proc/pci design idea
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Followup to:  <19970915212422.41308@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
By author: Martin Mares <mj@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> >
> > I think these are decent ideas, but I would prefer not going around and
> > creating system calls willy-nilly. Entries in /proc use existing system
> > calls, and also take care of managing permissions, security restrictions,
> > etc. (The pciconfig_write system call on alphas can be executed by anyone,
> > for example.)
> >
> > Only problem is, it requires /proc to be configured in. Oh well, I'm not
> > the first and won't be the last.
>
> Well, doing this via /proc is much slower. And how do you want to separate
> byte, word and longword accesses?
>

There are things /proc was not meant to do; I/O is one of them -- I/O
is much better handled by traditional /dev device nodes.

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