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Message-ID: <20190917080435.GA5666@infradead.org>
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2019 01:04:35 -0700
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To: Jon Derrick <jonathan.derrick@...el.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@....com>,
Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@...nel.org>,
Keith Busch <keith.busch@...el.com>, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] PCI: vmd: Expose oob management window to users
On Mon, Sep 16, 2019 at 08:51:28AM -0600, Jon Derrick wrote:
> Some VMD devices provide a management window within MEMBAR2 that is used
> to communicate out-of-band with child devices. This patch creates a
> binary file for interacting with the interface.
>
> OOB Reads/Writes are bounds-checked by sysfs_fs_bin_{read,write}
I don't think this is a reasonable interface. If the OOB interfae
is useful please provide an actual kernel driver for it.
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