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Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 20:36:50 +0100
From: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
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       Guillermo Marcus <marcus@ti.uni-mannheim.de>,
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Subject: Re: mmaping a kernel buffer to user space
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Russell King wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 05:00:59PM +0100, Jiri Slaby wrote:
>> Piece of code please. pci_alloc_consistent calls __get_free_pages, and there
>> should be no problem with mmaping this area.
> 
> That is an implementation detail which is not portable to other
> architectures.  Please don't encourage people to use non-portable
> implementation details.

Sorry, I stand corrected, thanks,
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