Re: mmaping a kernel buffer to user space

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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