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SubjectRe: Adding kmap_atomic_prot_pfn
Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Thomas Hellström <thomas@tungstengraphics.com> wrote:
>
>
>> Keith,
>>
>> What you actually are doing here is claiming copyright on code that
>> other people have written, and tighten the export restrictions.
>> kmap_atomic_prot_pfn() appeared long ago in drm git with identical
>> code and purpose, but with different authors, and iounmap_atomic is
>> identical to kunmap_atomic.
>>
>
>
>>> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(iomap_atomic_prot_pfn);
>>>
>
> you want to use this facility in a binary-only driver?
>
> Ingo
>
At this point I have no such use for it, no.
The original user was a MIT style licenced driver.

/Thomas



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