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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2] x86: explicit call to mmiotrace in
	do_page_fault()
From: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
To: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi>
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On Sun, 2008-02-10 at 20:05 +0200, Pekka Paalanen wrote:

> Sorry Jan and Pavel, I forgot to CC you in the first go of this
> patch. If this makes it into mainline, I don't think it will be left
> there for many kernel versions. I plan to make kmmio.h as the API towards
> modules in the future, and the page fault callback will "disappear".
> I think madwifi could use just fine the kmmio.h functions, if it
> works basically just like mmiotrace.

In fact, the tracing version of MadWifi has a directory called mmiotrace
with the files lifted from nouveau.  I guess if will just stay in sync
with the upstream.

Many thanks for pushing it into the kernel.

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin