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SubjectRe: mmaping a kernel buffer to user space
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 05:00:59PM +0100, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> Piece of code please. pci_alloc_consistent calls __get_free_pages, and there
> should be no problem with mmaping this area.

That is an implementation detail which is not portable to other
architectures. Please don't encourage people to use non-portable
implementation details.

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Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core
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