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SubjectRe: DMA to user space
Hi,

On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 01:12:31PM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
>
> > The raw IO code in 2.3 allows you to do dma from user buffers to any
> > block device.
>
> Why only block device?

It's just terminology. Raw IO specifically means user-space dma to block
devices: the /dev/raw* raw devices only work bound to block devices. Of
course, there's nothing to stop you from doing similar IO to other
devices.

--Stephen

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