Re: Whats the rvmalloc() story?

Anton Blanchard
2001-02-17T09:03:36Z

> If you are offering to do this work now, here is a thread worth
> reading which includes a patch to start from...
>
> http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0002.1/0586.html
>
> BTW, Alan Cox sent me the following additional information in a
> private email. Might as well get this in the mailing list archives
> for posterity so that the terms "rvmalloc" and "kiovecs" actually
> appear in the same post. This way, at least, we all know what the
> plan for 2.6 should be.

Thanks for the info.

Since we arent going to put kiovecs in here for 2.4, I'll just add the 2.4
pci DMA fixes so my bttv card will work in my sparc and someone can look at
cleaning it up properly in 2.5.

Anton