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From: arnd@arndb.de (Arnd Bergmann)
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2016 16:15:28 +0200
Subject: [PATCH v2] arm64: pci: add support for pci_mmap_page_range
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On Monday 18 April 2016 19:31:20 Jerin Jacob wrote:
> Regarding existing user space applications,
> AFAIK, DPDK has the feature to support both /sysfs and vifo scheme.
> X11 uses only /sysfs scheme.
> 
> IMO, Nothing wrong in providing this feature in arm64 kernel.
> Except arm64, almost all the major architecture has this support.

My understanding was that it's considered deprecated and only
supported for backwards compatibility, but now I can't find any
indication of that in the source code and I don't know if that
is actually the case.

I agree with Will that we should not expose the procfs interface,
it's just far too ugly.

	Arnd