Re: [patch][cft] zero-copy dma cd writing and ripping

From: David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com)
Date: Mon Oct 28 2002 - 11:25:10 EST


On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 07:54, Jens Axboe wrote:
> I agree then. I will remove references to flush_dcache_page() in
> bio_map_user() and bio_unmap_user(), and we'll just unconditionally do
> flush_dcache_page() on every page mapped in get_user_pages(). That
> sounds far better to me. Do you really expect users of get_user_pages()
> to get this right (remember, we are often talking about device drivers
> :-). I sure am not :)

I have no expectations whatsoever :-)
I totally agree with you.

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