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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: "Martin Schlemmer [c]" <azarah@nosferatu.za.org>
Cc: Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, luc@saillard.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: rc4-mm1 and pwc-unofficial: kernel BUG and scheduling while atomic [u]
Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 12:00:54 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041017190054.GB5607@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1098038131.15115.8.camel@nosferatu.lan>

On Sun, 2004-10-17 at 02:30 -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> You need to right shift the argument by PAGE_SHIFT.

On Sun, Oct 17, 2004 at 08:35:31PM +0200, Martin Schlemmer [c] wrote:
> I am trying to get vesafb-tng to work with rc4-mm1, but are not sure
> when to shift the argument by PAGE_SHIFT, and when not to.  The patches
> from you in rc4-mm1 sometimes shifts the second arg, other times the
> third, and other times not at all.  Is there a easy way for a mostly
> clueless person to figure out when to shift what argument and when not?

Please point out where these inconsistencies occur and I will repair
them.

Only the third argument changed, from a physical address to a pfn.


-- wli

  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-17 19:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-17  7:36 rc4-mm1 and pwc-unofficial: kernel BUG and scheduling while atomic Norbert Preining
2004-10-17  9:30 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-10-17 18:22   ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-10-17 18:35   ` rc4-mm1 and pwc-unofficial: kernel BUG and scheduling while atomic [u] Martin Schlemmer [c]
2004-10-17 19:00     ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2004-10-17 19:57       ` Martin Schlemmer [c]
2004-10-17 20:13         ` William Lee Irwin III

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