[RFC/PATCH 1/2] pci: Add ability to mmap legacy_io on some platforms

[Jesse Barnes]

On Friday, October 3, 2008 2:49 am Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> This adds the ability to mmap legacy IO space to the legacy_io files
> in sysfs on platforms that support it. This will allow to clean up
> X to use this instead of /dev/mem for legacy IO accesses such as
> those performed by Int10.
>
> While at it I moved pci_create/remove_legacy_files() to pci-sysfs.c
> where I think they belong, thus making more things statis in there
> and cleaned up some spurrious prototypes in the ia64 pci.h file
>
> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
> ---
>
> I didn't have a chance to test that I didn't break ia64, so I would
> be if somebody could give it a spin there ! Thanks !
>
>  arch/ia64/include/asm/pci.h |   12 -----
>  arch/ia64/pci/pci.c         |    7 ++-
>  drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c     |   93
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--- drivers/pci/pci.h           | 
>   6 ++
>  drivers/pci/probe.c         |   66 -------------------------------
>  5 files changed, 102 insertions(+), 82 deletions(-)

Heh, is it obvious that this code originated on ia64 and no one ever ported it 
to another platform until now?  :)

Tony and/or Bjorn, do you want to take a look and make sure this is ok?  If so 
I can take the whole thing into the PCI tree.

Thanks,
Jesse