Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 08:59:44PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>> 
>> > Forward port of coherent-mmap.patch and sysfs-bin-ioctl.patch to x86 tree.
>> >
>> > TBD: Do we need the ioctl interface to sysfs or get the type attribute
>> > through a different sysfs file. And then actually specify the attribute
>> > while doing pci_mmap_page_range ;-)
>> 
>> This ioctl is not connected up.  So regardless of the wisdom of ioctls on
>> sysfs adding the infrastructure and then not using it is broken.
>
> Ok, I guess the "use an ioctl on a binary file in sysfs for PCI devices"
> makes a bit more sense (hint, next time explain this in the changelog
> instead of just saying that it is being added), but I would like to see
> how this is all hooked up before passing final judgement on it.


The obvious thing to do would be to hook it up like:
drivers/pci/proc.c:proc_bus_pci_ioctl.

Eric
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