Re: Getting at cardbus CIS data from inside drivers

[Justin T. Gibbs]

>The problem with a read/seek interface is that you are consuming a
>resource (a memory window) while you are using it.

Yes, but this is the client's resource to use anyway.

>You'd need an
>open/close on top of that as well to properly map things in to start
>and then free them at the end.  Plus you might want a ftell sort of
>interface as well.  I'll likely punt on the seek/ftell part.

I think it was Jonathan that mentioned that at times when you read
one entry you want to skip to another entry that it may reference.
I don't have the spec to know, but that is why I thought the flexibility
of having a seeking interface might be necessary.

--
Justin



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