From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 24 02:45:12 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64CC016A4CE for ; Fri, 24 Dec 2004 02:45:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: from main.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCE7C43D2D for ; Fri, 24 Dec 2004 02:45:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-stable@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ChfS2-0004pX-00 for ; Fri, 24 Dec 2004 03:45:10 +0100 Received: from anyanka.rfc1149.net ([81.56.47.149]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 24 Dec 2004 03:45:10 +0100 Received: from sam by anyanka.rfc1149.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 24 Dec 2004 03:45:10 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org From: Samuel Tardieu Date: 24 Dec 2004 03:40:34 +0100 Organization: Avian Carrier & Friends Lines: 7 Message-ID: <87r7lgwh99.fsf@beeblebrox.rfc1149.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: anyanka.rfc1149.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 X-Leafnode-NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:660:330f:f810:200:39ff:fe25:3aa2 Sender: news Subject: Why is mmap() disabled for ad/da devices? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 02:45:12 -0000 Why is mmap() disabled for ad/da devices? Both drivers use a "nommap" entry, in 4.x, 5.x and 6.x. Is there a problem in mmapping disks and partitions or has the code not been written? Sam -- Samuel Tardieu -- sam@rfc1149.net -- http://www.rfc1149.net/sam