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From: Rolf Offermanns <roffermanns@gmail.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: mmaping a kernel buffer to user space
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 11:11:46 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <loom.20061101T120846-320@post.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4547150F.8070408@ti.uni-mannheim.de

Guillermo Marcus <marcus <at> ti.uni-mannheim.de> writes:
> Note: I am using kernel 2.6.9 for these tests, as it is required by my
> current setup. Maybe this issue has already been addressed in newer
> kernel. If that is the case, please let me know.

Have a look at this article:

"The evolution of driver page remapping"
http://lwn.net/Articles/162860/

It should make things clearer. 

The "API changes in the 2.6 kernel series" page is also a very good read:
http://lwn.net/Articles/2.6-kernel-api/

HTH,
Rolf


  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-11-01 11:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-31  9:19 mmaping a kernel buffer to user space Guillermo Marcus
2006-10-31 16:00 ` Jiri Slaby
2006-10-31 16:25   ` Guillermo Marcus
2006-10-31 16:49     ` Jiri Slaby
2006-10-31 17:08       ` Franck Bui-Huu
2006-10-31 19:44       ` Miguel Ojeda
2006-10-31 19:22   ` Russell King
2006-10-31 19:36     ` Jiri Slaby
2006-10-31 16:10 ` Rolf Offermanns
2006-10-31 16:33   ` Guillermo Marcus
2006-11-01 11:11 ` Rolf Offermanns [this message]
2006-11-01 12:58   ` Guillermo Marcus Martinez
2006-11-01 14:00     ` yogeshwar sonawane
2006-11-01 15:06       ` Guillermo Marcus Martinez
2006-11-02  8:31     ` Russell King
2006-11-02 11:31       ` Guillermo Marcus

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