From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264263AbUEDH7U (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 May 2004 03:59:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264265AbUEDH7U (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 May 2004 03:59:20 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:7911 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264263AbUEDH7S (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 May 2004 03:59:18 -0400 Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 09:55:55 +0200 From: Arjan van de Ven To: davidm@hpl.hp.com Cc: Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , bunk@fs.tum.de, eyal@eyal.emu.id.au, linux-dvb-maintainer@linuxtv.org, Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: 2.6.6-rc3: modular DVB tda1004x broken Message-ID: <20040504075555.GB13287@devserv.devel.redhat.com> References: <20040501201342.GL2541@fs.tum.de> <20040501161035.67205a1f.akpm@osdl.org> <20040501175134.243b389c.akpm@osdl.org> <16534.35355.671554.321611@napali.hpl.hp.com> <16534.45589.62353.878714@napali.hpl.hp.com> <1083618424.3843.12.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> <16534.51724.578183.845357@napali.hpl.hp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="1LKvkjL3sHcu1TtY" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <16534.51724.578183.845357@napali.hpl.hp.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --1LKvkjL3sHcu1TtY Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 03:39:08PM -0700, David Mosberger wrote: > >>>>> On Mon, 03 May 2004 23:07:04 +0200, Arjan van de Ven said: > > Arjan> Exporting sys_mlock() for a kernel module soooo sounds wrong > Arjan> to me > > On what grounds? What alternative are you suggesting? if the module wants to pin userspace pages there are plenty of alternatives. Heck I suspect what they want is to mmap a device like most V4L drivers do, instead of doing it the windows way (let the app malloc and then pin) --1LKvkjL3sHcu1TtY Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAl0yKxULwo51rQBIRAjJdAJ0QVlMkKccqMf5Wq2BjA6Wps33w2ACghDom 1skSYxF+eXUJ8zKfZuceu7s= =tgwt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --1LKvkjL3sHcu1TtY--