On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 06:57:41PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> Not for raw I/O. Although for the drivers that can't cope then going via
> the page cache is certainly the next best alternative
True - but raw-io has it's own alignment issues anyway.
> Yes. You also need a way to describe it in terms of page * in order to do
> mm locking for raw I/O (like the video capture stuff wants)
Right. (That's why we have the struct page * always as part of the structure)
> Certainly having the lightweight one a subset of the heavyweight one is a good
> target.
Yes, I'm trying to address that...
Christoph
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