Re: [rfc] split_page function to split higher order pages?

[Nick Piggin]

On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 03:17:04PM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-01-21 at 13:40 +0100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Just wondering what people think of the idea of using a helper
> > function to split higher order pages instead of doing it manually?
> 
> Maybe it's worth documenting that this is for kernel (or even
> architecture) internal use only and that drivers really shouldn't be
> doing this..

I guess it doesn't seem like something drivers would need to use
(and none appear to do anything like it).

I'll add a note.

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