The right way to do this currently is a driver that kmalloc/vmallocs
buffers and maps them to user space combined with a phys<->virt ioctl
and also irq support in the same way - this will materially help XFree
support for the latest cards
> Note: I'm not saying that this is the way networking should be done!
> It's just something that I noticed you could do if you wanted.
I still don't think it should be a syscall - an ioctl on /dev/mem maybe
Alan
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