Jeff Garzik wrote:
That's pretty nice.
Back when I was writing [the now slated for death]
sound/oss/via82xxx_audio.c driver, Linus suggested that I implement
->nopage() for accessing the mmap'able DMA'd audio buffers, rather
than using remap_pfn_range(). It worked out very nicely, because it
allowed the sound driver to retrieve $N pages for the mmap'able buffer
(passed as an s/g list to the hardware) rather than requiring a single
humongous buffer returned by pci_alloc_consistent().
And although probably not your primary motivation, your change does
IMO improve this area of the kernel.
Thanks. Yeah hopefully this provides a little more flexibility (I think
it can
already replace 3 individual vm_ops callbacks!). And I'd like to see
what other
things it can be used for... :)
However, what we don't want is a bloating of struct fault_data IMO. So
I'd like
to try to nail down the fields that it needs quite quickly then really
keep a
lid on it.
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