Re: 2.6.17-rc1-mm1

[Bjorn Helgaas]

On Thursday 06 April 2006 04:34, Russell King wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 11:21:54AM +0100, Russell King wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 04:01:08PM -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > > [PATCH] vgacon: make VGA_MAP_MEM take size, remove extra use
> > 
> > Ah, seems to be what I just suggested...
> > 
> > > @@ -1020,14 +1019,14 @@
> > >  	char *charmap;
> > >  	
> > >  	if (vga_video_type != VIDEO_TYPE_EGAM) {
> > > -		charmap = (char *) VGA_MAP_MEM(colourmap);
> > > +		charmap = (char *) VGA_MAP_MEM(colourmap, 0);
> > 
> > Don't like this though - can't we pass a real size here rather than zero?
> > There seems to be several clues as to the maximum size:

I didn't like it either, but was too lazy to work out the actual size,
so I just preserved the previous behavior.

Andrew's put my first patch in -mm already, so I'll put this size
issue and your unmap suggestion on my to-do list.
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