From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: Guillermo Marcus <marcus@ti.uni-mannheim.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: mmaping a kernel buffer to user space
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 19:22:52 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061031192252.GA26625@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4547733B.9040801@gmail.com>
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 05:00:59PM +0100, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> Piece of code please. pci_alloc_consistent calls __get_free_pages, and there
> should be no problem with mmaping this area.
That is an implementation detail which is not portable to other
architectures. Please don't encourage people to use non-portable
implementation details.
--
Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-31 19:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-31 9:19 mmaping a kernel buffer to user space Guillermo Marcus
2006-10-31 16:00 ` Jiri Slaby
2006-10-31 16:25 ` Guillermo Marcus
2006-10-31 16:49 ` Jiri Slaby
2006-10-31 17:08 ` Franck Bui-Huu
2006-10-31 19:44 ` Miguel Ojeda
2006-10-31 19:22 ` Russell King [this message]
2006-10-31 19:36 ` Jiri Slaby
2006-10-31 16:10 ` Rolf Offermanns
2006-10-31 16:33 ` Guillermo Marcus
2006-11-01 11:11 ` Rolf Offermanns
2006-11-01 12:58 ` Guillermo Marcus Martinez
2006-11-01 14:00 ` yogeshwar sonawane
2006-11-01 15:06 ` Guillermo Marcus Martinez
2006-11-02 8:31 ` Russell King
2006-11-02 11:31 ` Guillermo Marcus
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