Re: [PATCH 1/1] Userspace I/O (UIO): Add support for userspace DMA(corrected)

[Andreas Bombe]

On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 04:20:15PM +0100, Hans J. Koch wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 01:30:04PM +0100, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> > I like that idea of a seperate directory in sysfs. How about allocating
> > DMA memory by creating files in this directory.
> 
> Nice idea, but AFAICT sysfs doesn't support creating files from userspace.

For that there is configfs.
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