Re: [PATCH 1/1] Userspace I/O (UIO): Add support for userspace DMA

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Fri Dec 12 2008 - 12:25:36 EST


On Fri, 2008-12-05 at 16:32 -0800, Edward Estabrook wrote:
> > Well, UIO already rapes the mmap interface by using the "offset" parameter to
> > pass in the number of the mapping.
>
> Exactly.

Had I known about it then, I'd NAK'd it, but I guess now that its
already merged changing it will be hard :/

Also, having done something bad in the past doesn't mean you can
continue doing the wrong thing.

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/