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From: Ilya Yanok <ilya.yanok@gmail.com>
To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>
Cc: adaplas@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: commit 68e5e9d734503695915734e50e9427624cf8f3b2 (Re: vfb: make virtual framebuffer mmapable)
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:44:12 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AC5F59C.5090507@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AC5EFC50200007800017ABC@vpn.id2.novell.com>

Hi Jan,

Jan Beulich wrote:
> Is there any particular reason why this change uses vmalloc_32()
> rather than simply vmalloc()?

I don't think so. I wasn't very experienced with kernel programming that
time and just copied code from another driver. Actually I think we don't
really need all this rvmalloc()/rvfree() magic we just need to use
remap_vmalloc_range() instead of remap_pfn_range().

Regards, Ilya.


      reply	other threads:[~2009-10-02 12:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-02 10:19 commit 68e5e9d734503695915734e50e9427624cf8f3b2 (Re: vfb: make virtual framebuffer mmapable) Jan Beulich
2009-10-02 12:44 ` Ilya Yanok [this message]

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