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Message-Id: <1157059114.24286.7.camel@bip.parateam.prv>
Date:	Thu, 31 Aug 2006 23:18:33 +0200
From:	Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@...e.fr>
To:	Lee Revell <rlrevell@...-job.com>
Cc:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Simple userspace interface for PCI drivers

Le jeudi 31 août 2006 à 17:12 -0400, Lee Revell a écrit :
> On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 22:58 +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> > Precisely. How do you know the bugreport you received isn't caused by
> > some weird binary userspace driver hosing the PCI bus ? 
> 
> Can't X, or any application that access hardware directly by
> mmaping /dev/mem, do this now?

Yes they can, but X's behavior is pretty well known by now :) and it's
open source.

	Xav

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