Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: the userspace side of driverfs | From | Nicholas Miell <> | Date | 10 Sep 2002 21:52:53 -0700 |
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On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 21:38, Patrick Mochel wrote: > > On 10 Sep 2002, Nicholas Miell wrote: > > > - The "resource" files export resource structs, however the flags member > > of the struct uses bits that aren't exported by the kernel and are > > likely to change in the future. Also, some of the flags bits are > > reserved for use by the bus that the resource lives on, but the bus type > > isn't specified by the resource file, which requires the app to parse > > the path name in order to figure out which bus the resource refers to. > > The flags bit is a good point, and should probably be removed. >
You need the flags, otherwise you can't distinguish dma/irq/mmio/ports. The other flag bits are interesting, too.
- Nicholas
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