From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Terence Ripperda <tripperda@nvidia.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.15-rc4
Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 16:22:24 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051203002224.GB31077@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051202180236.GA19327@hygelac>
On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 12:02:36PM -0600, Terence Ripperda wrote:
> 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.
Well, you were going to run into this problem eventually...
Good luck,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-03 0:22 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
2005-12-03 0:22 ` Greg KH [this message]
[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
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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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