From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from ms3.netsolmail.com (IDENT:mirapoint@[216.168.230.176]) by omr2.netsolmail.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id iB6JA4G6009205 for ; Mon, 6 Dec 2004 14:10:04 -0500 (EST) From: Message-Id: <200412061910.CGY65252@ms3.netsolmail.com> Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 14:10:02 -0500 Subject: Can remap_area_pages be made non-static MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: All, What I'm trying to do is, in a situation where I have two identical pci video cards where the framebuffer memory maps the cards memory but only one is in use at a time, when a card fails or is hot-removed, I'd like to unmap the memory from the card that failed and remap the memory of the spare card to the same virtual address. It seems to me that remap_area_pages() does exactly what I desire but it's static. Can this fn be made non-static or is there a better way to do this? Please cc evt@texelsoft.com since my request to subscribe to the list has not completed yet. Thanks. - Eric van Tassell -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: aart@kvack.org