> On 7/26/07, David Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > From: Shannon Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 17:36:06 -0700
> >
> > > (repost - original eaten by vger?)
> > >
> > > Al Viro pointed out that dma_memcpy_to_kernel_iovec() really was
> > > unreachable and thus unused.
On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 08:09:53PM +0530, pravin wrote:
> comments?
please avoid using plain sendmsg/recvmsg from kernelspace. Adding these
segment checks is more than a bad hack and not something that should
clutter up fasthpathes. Add to that problems with kthreads vs blocking
recvmsg and you
On 7/26/07, David Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: Shannon Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 17:36:06 -0700
>
> > (repost - original eaten by vger?)
> >
> > Al Viro pointed out that dma_memcpy_to_kernel_iovec() really was
> > unreachable and thus unused. The code origina
From: Shannon Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 17:36:06 -0700
> (repost - original eaten by vger?)
>
> Al Viro pointed out that dma_memcpy_to_kernel_iovec() really was
> unreachable and thus unused. The code originally was there to support
> in-kernel dma needs, but since it rem
From: Shannon Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 17:36:06 -0700
> (repost - original eaten by vger?)
This one seems to have made it.
> Al Viro pointed out that dma_memcpy_to_kernel_iovec() really was
> unreachable and thus unused. The code originally was there to support
> in-ker
