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Subject: Re: [patch] zero-bounce highmem I/O
To: davem@redhat.com (David S. Miller)
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 15:56:21 +0100 (BST)
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> It is video layer, and the video layer should be helping along with
> these sorts of issues.

Linus refused to let make make the vmalloc helpers generic code, thats
why we have 8 or 9 different copies some containing old bugs

> void video_pci_put_user_pages(struct pci_dev *pdev,
> 			      struct scatterlist *sg,
> 			      int npages);

Why video_pci. WHy is this even video related. This is a generic issue

> In fact, this isn't even a video layer issue, and the kernel
> ought to provide my suggested interfaces in some generic
> place.

Then we agree on that