On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Mike Smith wrote:
> > > > Hey, that's not fair :-) I'd like to know how to do things the rigth way.
> > >
> > > You'll need to tell us what it is that you're actually doing, then, since
> > > it's hard to guess from a tiny snippet like that. 8)
> >
> > Well, but if you didn't know, how could you tell that I'm doing something
> > very wrong then? :-)
>
> Because dinking with PCI configuration space is usually the wrong thing
> to do from userland.
So what about pciconf(8)?
>
> > I was porting (that is, it's not mine) some linux code that walks thru PCI
> > bus, searches for a particular device, and when it finds any, figures out
> > their parameters and fills some structures.
> >
> > This code is used, actually, in char device driver.
>
> Mm, so what's it doing in userspace? 8)
Did I say I'm doing it from userspace?! If I did (too lazy to dig into
sent-mail), I beg your pardon :)
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Rgs,
Alexey
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