Re: [PATCH] __VMALLOC_RESERVE export

[Tonnerre]

Salut,

On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 06:12:29PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 03:03:43AM +1000, Antony Suter wrote:
> > __VMALLOC_RESERVE itself is not exported but is used by something that
> > is. This patch is against 2.6.9-rc2-bk11
> > 
> > This is required by the nvidia binary driver 1.0.6111
> 
> And the driver does absolutely nasty things it shouldn't do.  This is an
> implementation detail that absolutely should not be exported.

NVidia isn't the only user...

Every  kernel  module  that  uses  just anything  that  uses  the  old
__VMALLOC_RESERVE define was broken without this patch.

			    Tonnerre

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