Am Montag, 10. Dezember 2001 11:10 schrieb Alan Cox:
> > > I can see that being possible. For that obscure case you'd probably
> > > have to mlock stuff.
> >
> > For this obscure case, would the situation be different if the firmware
> > was in kernel space?
>
> It would still be unswappable so you might as well mlock it into user space
> I suspect.

That means that acpid or its equivalent would have to do firmware downloads itself
and have to mlock what it needs to do so especially itself, the firmware, libusb and
parts of libc.

        Regards
                Oliver


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