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From: Terence Ripperda <tripperda@nvidia.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Terence Ripperda <tripperda@nvidia.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.15-rc4
Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 12:02:36 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051202180236.GA19327@hygelac> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0512011455090.3099@g5.osdl.org>

On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 03:11:27PM -0800, torvalds@osdl.org wrote:
> There's some explanation on what is going on in mm/memory.c: see the 
> comments above the "vm_normal_page()" function (which you should never 
> use: it's for internal VM usage, but it explains how the page range 
> remapping works), and above "vm_insert_page()" (which you _should_ use).

Thanks Linus,

I didn't realize that the interface had changed. we're certainly happy
to update our driver to use the appropriate interface.

the only problem is that it appears that vm_insert_page is exported
GPL-only, which obviously creates problems.

Thanks,
Terence


  reply	other threads:[~2005-12-02 18:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-01  6:40 Linux 2.6.15-rc4 Linus Torvalds
2005-12-01 12:18 ` Ralf Hildebrandt
2005-12-01 21:11   ` Terence Ripperda
2005-12-01 23:11     ` Linus Torvalds
2005-12-02 18:02       ` Terence Ripperda [this message]
2005-12-03  0:22         ` Greg KH
     [not found]           ` <6f6293f10512031726n10ea87e6s44be5dffbd512bb5@mail.gmail.com>
2005-12-04  1:34             ` Linus Torvalds
2005-12-01 14:05 ` Kasper Sandberg
2005-12-01 16:05   ` Linus Torvalds
2005-12-01 18:57     ` Kasper Sandberg
2005-12-01 19:04       ` Linus Torvalds
2005-12-01 22:57         ` Kasper Sandberg
     [not found]     ` <6f6293f10512011112m6e50fe0ejf0aa5ba9d09dca1e@mail.gmail.com>
2005-12-01 19:34       ` Linus Torvalds
2005-12-01 21:41         ` Eyal Lebedinsky
2005-12-01 21:53           ` Linus Torvalds
2005-12-01 23:37             ` Grant Coady
2005-12-02 11:45               ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2005-12-02 17:41                 ` Grant Coady
2005-12-02 17:48                   ` Michael Krufky
2005-12-02 19:37                     ` Pauline Middelink
2005-12-02 20:19                       ` Grant Coady
2005-12-02 20:32                         ` Richard Mittendorfer
2005-12-04 15:50                     ` Adrian Bunk
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-12-04  3:00 Paul Blazejowski
2005-12-04 14:12 Subodh Shrivastava
2005-12-05 15:51 ` Mark Lord

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