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[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH v3 1/1] Shared memory uio_pci driver


From: Avi Kivity
Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH v3 1/1] Shared memory uio_pci driver
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2010 20:48:34 +0300
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On 03/26/2010 07:14 PM, Cam Macdonell wrote:

I'm not familiar with the uio internals, but for the interface, an ioctl()
on the fd to assign an eventfd to an MSI vector.  Similar to ioeventfd, but
instead of mapping a doorbell to an eventfd, it maps a real MSI to an
eventfd.
uio will never support ioctls.

Why not?

Maybe irqcontrol could be extended?

What's irqcontrol?

--
Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to 
panic.





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