Re: + edac-new-opteron-athlon64-memory-controller-driver.patchadded to -mm tree

[Alan Cox]

Ar Iau, 2006-07-06 am 20:08 +0200, ysgrifennodd Andi Kleen:
> > No. There is a status report that tells you which pieces of hardware
> > your memory controller sees.  It is just a simple list.
> 
> Ok but that could be also done easily in user space that reads
> PCI config space. No need for a complicated kernel driver at all.

The same is true of writing a file system and disk driver so I'm a bit
confused why you think poking around in PCI space from user space is an
argument or given how often such stuff breaks and how messy it gets (eg
X) that we want to encourage it


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