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

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Message-Id: <1217631718.23437.290.camel@koto.keithp.com>
Date:	Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:01:58 -0700
From:	Keith Packard <keithp@...thp.com>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:	keithp@...thp.com, Eric Anholt <eric@...olt.net>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Export shmem_file_setup and shmem_getpage for DRM-GEM

On Fri, 2008-08-01 at 16:50 -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

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

I can't create that many files; I need thousands of them.

-- 
keith.packard@...el.com

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