Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 1 Aug 2008 16:50:52 -0400 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Export shmem_file_setup and shmem_getpage for DRM-GEM |
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On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 11:58:38PM -0700, Eric Anholt wrote: > From: Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com> > > GEM needs to create shmem files and get pages related to a shmem file, and > using this pair of functions is the easiest way to do that.
Nope. Let the userspace protion create a file in shmfs instead of adding fugly kernel interfaces hdiing this fact.
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