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Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 16:30:41 +0000
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@fenrus.demon.nl>
To: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
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Subject: Re: [patch] vmalloc_to_page() backport for 2.4
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On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 02:46:39PM +0000, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Alan Cox wrote:
> > 
> > Similarly the PAE/non-PAE thing is a red herring. Given that even basic
> > data types change size on pae no module is going to be magically pae/non-pae
> > clean if its binary only.
> 
> Few modules take an interest in ptes, that's as it should be, and so
> few modules build to different binaries with CONFIX_X86_PAE off or on
> (modulo module versions).

Well dma_addr_t and some others also change size..... struct page also
changes quite a bit
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