On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 08:45 -0700, Jared Hulbert wrote:
> > We only need to mark those pages as absent in the page tables if we ever
> > schedule to userspace while the flash is in a mode other than read mode.
> > Then handle the page fault by switching the flash back or waiting for
> > it.
>
> Where would we do this? In each MTD driver? A new generic aops function?
Probably a helper function with callbacks into the MTD driver. You ask
the MTD device driver to map a certain range of itself to userspace, and
it does so. Then it handles the page faults, etc.
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dwmw2
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