From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754289Ab0JDJYy (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Oct 2010 05:24:54 -0400 Received: from www.tglx.de ([62.245.132.106]:37628 "EHLO www.tglx.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753118Ab0JDJYx (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Oct 2010 05:24:53 -0400 Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2010 11:26:26 +0200 From: "Hans J. Koch" To: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Greg KH , Greg KH , "Hans J. Koch" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] uio: Remove unused uio_info mmap method. Message-ID: <20101004092625.GA1867@silverbox.local> References: <20100917205946.GF2522@local> <20100924104555.GC1819@silverbox.local> <20100924173106.GA4966@silverbox.local> <20100925003308.GA29910@suse.de> <20100926192142.GA7252@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 03:48:19PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > There are no drivers in the kernel that implement the uio_info mmap > method there is no point in keeping it. > > Further keeping the mmap method would necessiate wrapping all of the > methods in vm_operations_struct to successfully implement suppport > for hotunplugable hardware, and it I have yet to find a correct way to > wrap the the vm_operations_struct close method. I have no objections, but please update Documentation/DocBook/uio-howto.tmpl accordingly. Thanks, Hans