Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 14:07:53 -0700 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@scsiguy.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: wpaul@FreeBSD.ORG (Bill Paul), freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Getting at cardbus CIS data from inside drivers Message-ID: <200011212107.eALL7r466624@aslan.scsiguy.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 21 Nov 2000 13:43:23 MST." <200011212043.NAA37246@harmony.village.org>
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>The problem with a read/seek interface is that you are consuming a >resource (a memory window) while you are using it. Yes, but this is the client's resource to use anyway. >You'd need an >open/close on top of that as well to properly map things in to start >and then free them at the end. Plus you might want a ftell sort of >interface as well. I'll likely punt on the seek/ftell part. I think it was Jonathan that mentioned that at times when you read one entry you want to skip to another entry that it may reference. I don't have the spec to know, but that is why I thought the flexibility of having a seeking interface might be necessary. -- Justin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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