linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Export shmem_file_setup and shmem

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Message-ID: <20080801205052.GA28747@infradead.org>
Date:	Fri, 1 Aug 2008 16:50:52 -0400
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Eric Anholt <eric@...olt.net>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, keithp@...thp.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Export shmem_file_setup and shmem_getpage for DRM-GEM

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 11:58:38PM -0700, Eric Anholt wrote:
> From: Keith Packard <keithp@...thp.com>
> 
> GEM needs to create shmem files and get pages related to a shmem file, and
> using this pair of functions is the easiest way to do that.

Nope.  Let the userspace protion create a file in shmfs instead of
adding fugly kernel interfaces hdiing this fact.

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