Re: [patch] zero-bounce highmem I/O

Alan Cox
2001-08-16T14:54:09Z

> It is video layer, and the video layer should be helping along with
> these sorts of issues.

Linus refused to let make make the vmalloc helpers generic code, thats
why we have 8 or 9 different copies some containing old bugs

> void video_pci_put_user_pages(struct pci_dev *pdev,
> struct scatterlist *sg,
> int npages);

Why video_pci. WHy is this even video related. This is a generic issue

> In fact, this isn't even a video layer issue, and the kernel
> ought to provide my suggested interfaces in some generic
> place.

Then we agree on that