From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Petr Vandrovec <VANDROVE@vc.cvut.cz>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mark install_page static
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 16:05:24 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040907230524.GT3106@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2E70CD2670F@vcnet.vc.cvut.cz>
On 7 Sep 04 at 16:37, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> Not used anywhere in modules and it really shouldn't either.
On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 07:46:33PM +0200, Petr Vandrovec wrote:
> How are modules supposed to implement vma's populate method
> without having install_page available? And yes, there are
> out of tree kernel modules which prefer fremap & populate & install_page
> over creating several thousands of VMAs to get non-linear mappings.
I think this is serious enough to keep the export.
-- wli
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-07 23:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-07 17:46 [PATCH] mark install_page static Petr Vandrovec
2004-09-07 17:46 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-09-07 23:05 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-09-07 14:37 Christoph Hellwig
2004-09-07 17:09 ` Alan Cox
2004-09-07 18:12 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-09-07 17:25 ` Alan Cox
2004-09-07 18:29 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-09-07 19:14 ` Randy.Dunlap
2004-09-07 21:58 ` Sam Ravnborg
2004-09-07 20:00 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-09-09 15:10 ` Herbert Poetzl
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