Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268231AbUIGRrC (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Sep 2004 13:47:02 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268203AbUIGRrC (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Sep 2004 13:47:02 -0400 Received: from verein.lst.de ([213.95.11.210]:37789 "EHLO mail.lst.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266149AbUIGRqz (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Sep 2004 13:46:55 -0400 Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 19:46:49 +0200 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Petr Vandrovec Cc: Christoph Hellwig , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] mark install_page static Message-ID: <20040907174649.GA12239@lst.de> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Petr Vandrovec , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org References: <2E70CD2670F@vcnet.vc.cvut.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <2E70CD2670F@vcnet.vc.cvut.cz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-Spam-Score: -4.901 () BAYES_00 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 746 Lines: 15 On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 07:46:33PM +0200, Petr Vandrovec wrote: > On 7 Sep 04 at 16:37, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > Not used anywhere in modules and it really shouldn't either. > > How are modules supposed to implement vma's populate method > without having install_page available? And yes, there are > out of tree kernel modules which prefer fremap & populate & install_page > over creating several thousands of VMAs to get non-linear mappings. Submit them fo inclusion and we can consider them. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/