If you have a situation where that is hard to handle you can vmalloc a block
of memory then map that into user space. drivers/char/bttv.c does it. Its
ugly and bttv needs to switch to kiovecs in 2.3.x if I get time.
> Since we're going to ship a driver to customers, we can't use kiobuf unless
> it is standard part of the kernel.
Whose kernel 8)
> So, has kiobuf been accepted into the kernel proper or will it be a patch
> for the forseeable future?
Its in several vendor shipped kernels and in 2.2ac but not in 2.2 vanilla and
since its not a bug fix isnt likely to be
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