Subject: Re: How to write a driver for a new PCI device?
To: Brett Lymn <blymn@baea.com.au>
From: Darren Reed <darrenr@reed.wattle.id.au>
List: port-i386
Date: 03/02/2000 17:30:24 
In some email I received from Brett Lymn, sie wrote:
[...]
>               flags
>                 ??? flags passed to the open call by user ???
> 
>               mode
>                 ??? mode for open ???

One of flags/mode will supply FREAD/FWRITE.  This will reflect whether
the device has been opened read-only or read-write.

Darren