Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 12:02:36 -0600
From: Terence Ripperda <tripperda@nvidia.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Terence Ripperda <tripperda@nvidia.com>,
       Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.15-rc4
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On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 03:11:27PM -0800, torvalds@osdl.org wrote:
> There's some explanation on what is going on in mm/memory.c: see the 
> comments above the "vm_normal_page()" function (which you should never 
> use: it's for internal VM usage, but it explains how the page range 
> remapping works), and above "vm_insert_page()" (which you _should_ use).

Thanks Linus,

I didn't realize that the interface had changed. we're certainly happy
to update our driver to use the appropriate interface.

the only problem is that it appears that vm_insert_page is exported
GPL-only, which obviously creates problems.

Thanks,
Terence

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