Re: [rfc] split_page function to split higher order pages?

On Sat, 2006-01-21 at 13:40 +0100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Just wondering what people think of the idea of using a helper
> function to split higher order pages instead of doing it manually?

Maybe it's worth documenting that this is for kernel (or even
architecture) internal use only and that drivers really shouldn't be
doing this..

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