Re: [android-kernel] How to map user space buffers into kernel space

2010-09-02 Thread Rene Gonzalez
2010/9/2 Greg KH > On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 8:29 PM, Rene Gonzalez > wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I want to map an user space buffer from an application into kernel > space... > > Why? What type of driver is this? > Well this intended to be procfs driver to check some data buffer status so I don'

Re: [android-kernel] How to map user space buffers into kernel space

2010-09-02 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 8:29 PM, Rene Gonzalez wrote: > Hi All, > > I want to map anĀ  user space buffer from an application into kernel space... Why? What type of driver is this? > Since this buffer is defined in the app domain I want to keep it and avoid to > mapping kernel buffer to be used by

[android-kernel] How to map user space buffers into kernel space

2010-09-01 Thread Rene Gonzalez
Hi All, I want to map an user space buffer from an application into kernel space... Since this buffer is defined in the app domain I want to keep it and avoid to mapping kernel buffer to be used by this application. So if any one of you can point me to any documentation that helps to do it I'll