linux-kernel - Re: nommu vm_get_page_prot and framebuffer drivers in 2.6.36-rc1

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Date:	Thu, 19 Aug 2010 11:02:45 -0400
From:	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>
To:	Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@...il.com>
Cc:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>, uclinux-dev@...inux.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: nommu vm_get_page_prot and framebuffer drivers in 2.6.36-rc1

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 03:21:35PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> the recent commit c07fbfd17e614a76b194f371c5331e21e6cffb54 added a

Next time please do write to the folks that are on the Signed-off-by
list on the patch.

> call to vm_get_page_prot() in drivers/video/fbmem.c.  but this
> function doesnt exist for nommu.  so obviously we get:
> ERROR: "vm_get_page_prot" [drivers/video/fb.ko] undefined!

Duh!
> 
> looking a bit through mm/, i guess we should stub this out to 0 ?

Yes. Could you create a patch for this, please?

> #define vm_page_prot(x) 0
> -mike
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