Re: [PATCH] uio_pci_generic does not export memory resources

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On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 06:23:19PM +0200, Dominic Eschweiler wrote:
> Am Freitag, den 08.06.2012, 17:57 +0200 schrieb Hans J. Koch:
> > What problem do you have with this approach?
> 
> Nothing itself. There is obviously a documentation issue, which really
> confuses people who are new to that stuff. I thought that fixing it, by
> just adding a view lines of code (really a view, when I remove the DMA
> masque part) might enhance this particular module. 
> 
> Anyway, what is wrong when the uio_pci_generic module works like
> described in the related documentation? 

Documentation says this:

	Userspace driver can use pci sysfs interface, or the
	libpci libray that wraps it, to talk to the device and to
	re-enable interrupts by writing to the command register.

maybe we should make the point that *all* interaction with
the device should be done via sysfs, explicit.

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