Re: mmaping a kernel buffer to user space

[Russell King]

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.

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 Serial core
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