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Subject: Re: [PATCH] PCI: vmd: Expose oob management window to users
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On Mon, Sep 16, 2019 at 08:51:28AM -0600, Jon Derrick wrote:
> Some VMD devices provide a management window within MEMBAR2 that is used
> to communicate out-of-band with child devices. This patch creates a
> binary file for interacting with the interface.
> 
> OOB Reads/Writes are bounds-checked by sysfs_fs_bin_{read,write}

I don't think this is a reasonable interface.  If the OOB interfae
is useful please provide an actual kernel driver for it.