On 3/28/07, Erik Mouw <mouw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 09:45:52AM +0530, Daniel Rodrick wrote: > If we map device memory into user space using mmap(), the user will be > able to do read / write into device using normal memory handling > routines, right? Right. > But as mentioned in LDD3, should appropriate readb() / writeb() > routines be actually used to read / write into device memory? LDD3 is right (as usual :).
So using mmap() to map device memory into user space, and then reading / writing to device memory in same way as normal memory isn't correct? Thanks, Dan. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
