Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266910AbUI0S1U (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Sep 2004 14:27:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266912AbUI0S1U (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Sep 2004 14:27:20 -0400 Received: from smtp1.adl2.internode.on.net ([203.16.214.181]:14858 "EHLO smtp1.adl2.internode.on.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266910AbUI0S1O (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Sep 2004 14:27:14 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] __VMALLOC_RESERVE export From: Antony Suter To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: List LKML , torvalds@osdl.org In-Reply-To: <20040927181229.A25704@infradead.org> References: <1096304623.9430.8.camel@hikaru.lan> <20040927181229.A25704@infradead.org> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-W2Mh46ObWVOAjaytFUq5" Message-Id: <1096309603.9430.17.camel@hikaru.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 04:26:43 +1000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1527 Lines: 43 --=-W2Mh46ObWVOAjaytFUq5 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 03:12, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 03:03:43AM +1000, Antony Suter wrote: > > __VMALLOC_RESERVE itself is not exported but is used by something that > > is. This patch is against 2.6.9-rc2-bk11 > >=20 > > This is required by the nvidia binary driver 1.0.6111 >=20 > And the driver does absolutely nasty things it shouldn't do. This is an > implementation detail that absolutely should not be exported. However __VMALLOC_RESERVE, specific to arch-i386 is now used by the macro MAXMEM. MAXMEM is _not_ specific to arch-i386. The nvidia driver has a kernel module that uses the macro MAXMEM. Is it wrong for a kernel module to use MAXMEM? --=20 - Antony Suter (suterant users sourceforge net) "Bonta" - "Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." - Aldous Huxley --=-W2Mh46ObWVOAjaytFUq5 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBBWFtjZu6XKGV+xxoRAuHoAKCB5fcymeLLXSktOdD93fgWnxuUrgCgnRup p4I2dmzdg982KRwmi3hYzQQ= =dmkz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-W2Mh46ObWVOAjaytFUq5-- - 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/