Re: can device drivers return non-ram via vm_ops->nopage?

[William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>]

On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 12:50:53PM -0800, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> There are other reasons for doing it, e.g. unusual TLB attributes
>> and/or unusual pagetable structures backing the virtual region. I don't
>> see anyone standing up and screaming for more functionality than cache
>> coherency and/or disablement now, so as far as I'm concerned,
>> remap_area_pages() (or rmk's stuff) kills the issue.

On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 10:26:39PM +0000, Russell King wrote:
> I'm no longer planning on this.  In fact, I see a future where I tell
> people who want to use sound on ARM to go screw themselves because
> there doesn't seem to be an acceptable solution to this problem.
> Of course, this will lead to dirty hacks by many people who *REQUIRE*
> sound to work, but I guess we just don't care about that.
> (Yes, I'm pissed off over this issue.)

This is the exact opposite of what I'd hoped come of this discussion.
ISTR something about remap_area_pages() missing several pieces, but
I pretty much need some kind of clarification to know what. Well, that,
and I presumed your fixups for ALSA were headed toward mainline
regardless after coping with whatever issue dwmw2 had (e.g. returning
pfn's or something).


-- wli