Re: [PATCH] mark install_page static

[William Lee Irwin III]

On  7 Sep 04 at 16:37, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> Not used anywhere in modules and it really shouldn't either.

On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 07:46:33PM +0200, Petr Vandrovec wrote:
> How are modules supposed to implement vma's populate method
> without having install_page available?  And yes, there are
> out of tree kernel modules which prefer fremap & populate & install_page
> over creating several thousands of VMAs to get non-linear mappings.

I think this is serious enough to keep the export.


-- wli
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