From: "Franck Bui-Huu" <fbuihuu@gmail.com>
To: "Hugh Dickins" <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: "Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
"Andrew Morton" <akpm@osdl.org>,
"Nadia Derbey" <Nadia.Derbey@bull.net>, "Andi Kleen" <ak@suse.de>,
"Arjan van de Ven" <arjan@infradead.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: revert "Fix up" of mmap_kmem
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 15:21:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <61ec3ea90701230621nd03f9c6jc996ca3d041a07ef@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0701221642320.27059@blonde.wat.veritas.com>
On 1/22/07, Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> wrote:
> Please revert 2.6.19's 99a10a60ba9bedcf5d70ef81414d3e03816afa3f (shown
> below) for 2.6.20. Nadia Derbey has reported that mmap of /dev/kmem no
> longer works with the kernel virtual address as offset, and Franck has
> confirmed that his patch came from a misunderstanding of what an offset
> means to /dev/kmem - whereas his patch description seems to say that he
> was correcting the offset on a few plaforms, there was no such problem
> to correct, and his patch was in fact changing its API on all platforms.
>
Yes I confirm, sorry for the confusion.
--
Franck
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2007-01-22 16:47 Hugh Dickins
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