Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751101AbVLCAWg (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Dec 2005 19:22:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751105AbVLCAWg (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Dec 2005 19:22:36 -0500 Received: from mail.kroah.org ([69.55.234.183]:26591 "EHLO perch.kroah.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751093AbVLCAWf (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Dec 2005 19:22:35 -0500 Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 16:22:24 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Terence Ripperda Cc: Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.15-rc4 Message-ID: <20051203002224.GB31077@kroah.com> References: <20051201121826.GF19694@charite.de> <20051201211119.GA11437@hygelac> <20051202180236.GA19327@hygelac> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051202180236.GA19327@hygelac> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1033 Lines: 25 On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 12:02:36PM -0600, Terence Ripperda wrote: > 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. Well, you were going to run into this problem eventually... Good luck, greg k-h - 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/