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Driver porting: Zero-copy user-space access

Driver porting: Zero-copy user-space access

Posted Feb 13, 2004 14:34 UTC (Fri) by grisu1976 (guest, #19435)
Parent article: Driver porting: Zero-copy user-space access

I don't really understand why the kiobuf interface does not exist anymore. In linux kernel 2.4 the kiobuf interface used get_user_pages, or am i wrong? The kiobuf interface was easier to use than get_user_pages - that's my opinion


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