Re: DMA to user space

From: David Woodhouse (dwmw2@infradead.org)
Date: Wed Mar 22 2000 - 08:12:31 EST

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sct@redhat.com said:
> The raw IO code in 2.3 allows you to do dma from user buffers to any
> block device.

Why only block device? I'm quite happily locking pages down and DMAing to them
in a framegrabber device driver.

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