Re: [PATCH 17/17] arm64: Do not expose PCI mmap through procfs

From: David Woodhouse
Date: Wed Mar 22 2017 - 10:04:48 EST


On Wed, 2017-03-22 at 09:54 -0400, Sinan Kaya wrote:
> On 3/22/2017 9:25 AM, David Woodhouse wrote:
> >
> > Â
> > +#ifdef __aarch64__
> > +/* ARM64 wants to be special and not expose this through /proc
> > like everyone else */
> > +#undef HAVE_PCI_MMAP
> > +#endif
> > +
> Where is this ARM64 special requirement coming from?

The idea is that as a new platform, ARM64 shouldn't need to implement
legacy userspace interfaces.

http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2016-April/422571.html

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