Re: revert "Fix up" of mmap_kmem

[Franck Bui-Huu]

On 1/22/07, Hugh Dickins <hugh@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Please revert 2.6.19's 99a10a60ba9bedcf5d70ef81414d3e03816afa3f (shown
> below) for 2.6.20.  Nadia Derbey has reported that mmap of /dev/kmem no
> longer works with the kernel virtual address as offset, and Franck has
> confirmed that his patch came from a misunderstanding of what an offset
> means to /dev/kmem - whereas his patch description seems to say that he
> was correcting the offset on a few plaforms, there was no such problem
> to correct, and his patch was in fact changing its API on all platforms.

Yes I confirm, sorry for the confusion.
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               Franck
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