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Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 20:03:46 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: Jason Howard <lists@spectsoft.com>
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Subject: Re: kiovec/kiobuf replacement
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Jason Howard <lists@spectsoft.com> wrote:
>
> Hello All,
> 
> What is the correct change in code/mindset needed to replace the
> kiovec/kiobuf routines?  I am currently using there routines to do a
> scatter gather DMA from a user space buffer to/from a PCI video frame
> buffer device.  Should I approach this problem differently?  The user
> space buffer can be up to 8MB in size.
> 

Direct use of get_user_pages() seems to be working OK for that sort of thing.