linux-kernel - Re: revert "Fix up" of mmap

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Date:	Tue, 23 Jan 2007 15:21:22 +0100
From:	"Franck Bui-Huu" <fbuihuu@...il.com>
To:	"Hugh Dickins" <hugh@...itas.com>
Cc:	"Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...l.org>,
	"Nadia Derbey" <Nadia.Derbey@...l.net>, "Andi Kleen" <ak@...e.de>,
	"Arjan van de Ven" <arjan@...radead.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: revert "Fix up" of mmap_kmem

On 1/22/07, Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com> 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.
-- 
                Franck
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