> > > Well, doing this via /proc is much slower. And how do you want to separate
> > > byte, word and longword accesses?
> > There are things /proc was not meant to do; I/O is one of them -- I/O
> > is much better handled by traditional /dev device nodes.
> If you want a device, I have submitted the code to do that a few
> months ago. Yes you can write. Dejanews?
But a device doesn't seem to solve the byte/word/longword problems as well.
In fact, you can restrict the device to allow read() with length of 1, 2 or 4
only, but then it won't be usable as a general device (i.e., cat /dev/pci
won't work).
Have a nice fortnight
-- Martin `MJ' Mares <mj@gts.cz> http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/ Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth "Entropy isn't what it used to be."