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On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 02:36:31PM +1000, Alastair D'Silva wrote:
> From: Alastair D'Silva <alastair@d-silva.org>
> 
> If an external driver module supplies physical memory and needs to expose

Why would you ever want to allow a module to do such a thing?