Re: ioremap and kmap

From: Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com)
Date: Mon Feb 28 2000 - 21:34:22 EST

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Lyle Coder wrote:
> What is the difference between ioremap and kmap?

ioremap is for memory-mapped I/O, say to PCI memory regions.

kmap is for anytime you want to be able to use "highmem"

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