Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | 14 Dec 2007 01:43:26 +0100 | | Date | Fri, 14 Dec 2007 01:43:26 +0100 | | From | Andi Kleen <> | | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 08/12] PAT 64b: coherent mmap and sysfs bin ioctl |
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On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 04:19:32PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 03:55:51PM -0800, venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com 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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