Re: do_mmap() question

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
26 Sep 1999 21:47:36 GMT


Followup to: <Pine.SOL.3.95.990921101554.19493A-100000@spork.llnl.gov>
By author: Jim Garlick <garlick@llnl.gov>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Greetings,
>
> I need to create a user mapping to some SDRAM on a PCI board, but I can't
> do it via a regular file operation like mmap() or ioctl(). Instead, the
> mapping should be a side-effect of a device-specific system call I
> have added.
>

Ahem... ioctl() *is* a device-specific system call. No more, no less.

-hpa

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