Re: PATCH: Raw device IO for 2.1.131

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Mon, 14 Dec 1998 01:43:00 +0000 (GMT)


> > His torvaldsness rejected a patch that made mlock callable from inside drivers
> > to do this sort of stuff. So thats not a possibility.
> >
>
> Hang on... this sounds like exactly the kind of stuff that we want,
> but want in 2.3. I'd say we need 2.2 out ASAP more than anything
> else at this point.

I was assuming from the start the discussion wasnt about 2.2 - or at least
not standard 2.2, its about 2.3 and this patch right as a seperate add on
for 2.2

Alan

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