Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sun, 05 Feb 2006 21:50:20 +0100 | | From | Stefan Richter <> | | Subject | Re: [RFC 4/4] firewire: add mem1394 |
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Andi Kleen wrote: > BenH's firescope tool does this already using raw1394 > (I have it working now on x86-64 too). I dont quite see the point > of adding another kernel driver for it though. This can be all > done fine in userspace.
The point is to provide an interface like /dev/mem in order to use a wider range of debug/ forensics/ hacker tools than specialized libraw1394 clients. Sure enough, the benefit is small, but so is this driver's code footprint. -- Stefan Richter -=====-=-==- --=- --=-= http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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