Re: Exporting PCI ROMs via syfs

Valdis.Kletnieks_at_vt.edu
Date: 05/22/04

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    To: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@yahoo.com>
Date:	Fri, 21 May 2004 19:38:31 -0400

    On Thu, 20 May 2004 18:05:10 PDT, Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@yahoo.com> said:
    > GregKH has suggested that a good interface for accessing the contents of PCI
    > ROMs from user space would be to make them available from sysfs. What would be a
    > good way to structure the code for doing this? Should this be part of the pci
    > driver, and how would this interface into class_simple to make the attribute
    > appear?

    Hmm... how do you make that fit with the "one file, one value" rule for sysfs?
    Have the "one value" be a nnnK binary blob representing the ROM image?

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