Re: 2.6.6-rc3: modular DVB tda1004x broken

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 03:39:08PM -0700, David Mosberger wrote:
> >>>>> On Mon, 03 May 2004 23:07:04 +0200, Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@xxxxxxxxxx> said:
> 
>   Arjan> Exporting sys_mlock() for a kernel module soooo sounds wrong
>   Arjan> to me
> 
> On what grounds?  What alternative are you suggesting?

if the module wants to pin userspace pages there are plenty of alternatives.
Heck I suspect what they want is to mmap a device like most V4L drivers do,
instead of doing it the windows way (let the app malloc and then pin)

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