Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932971AbXAWOWf (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Jan 2007 09:22:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932975AbXAWOWf (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Jan 2007 09:22:35 -0500 Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.184.227]:14884 "EHLO wr-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932971AbXAWOWe (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Jan 2007 09:22:34 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=GALldRs4XpZZko0CPTRGJDevCDcjwV8CmsilXJBC11EZ9vA4m2mtS6j1g7E3zYccOqGF25CkaA0Zta/3QvWbLGJNNiJ6xVls9ymwCR9vjtRSjHNucV77qwRVGzmeCmFsO2gUHq3/2AaVO/37aTaea9KeiAJ205zxvv0GG1r2zYk= Message-ID: <61ec3ea90701230621nd03f9c6jc996ca3d041a07ef@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 15:21:22 +0100 From: "Franck Bui-Huu" To: "Hugh Dickins" Subject: Re: revert "Fix up" of mmap_kmem Cc: "Linus Torvalds" , "Andrew Morton" , "Nadia Derbey" , "Andi Kleen" , "Arjan van de Ven" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 881 Lines: 18 On 1/22/07, Hugh Dickins wrote: > Please revert 2.6.19's 99a10a60ba9bedcf5d70ef81414d3e03816afa3f (shown > below) for 2.6.20. Nadia Derbey has reported that mmap of /dev/kmem no > longer works with the kernel virtual address as offset, and Franck has > confirmed that his patch came from a misunderstanding of what an offset > means to /dev/kmem - whereas his patch description seems to say that he > was correcting the offset on a few plaforms, there was no such problem > to correct, and his patch was in fact changing its API on all platforms. > Yes I confirm, sorry for the confusion. -- Franck - 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/