Mark Johnson <Mark.Johnson at sun.com> wrote:
> > Again, I just find it backwards. The one part of the argument which is
> > a fixed type of address, the kernel vaddr, is the point of reference in
> > the ddi_copyin/copyin, but *not* in the bp_copyin.
> >
> > Its a switch of the point of reference that I find confusing.
>
>
> bp_copyin - copy into a buf_t
> bp_copyout - copy out of a buf_t
>
> I think it would be more confusing if it were the other way
> around.
Given the fact that ddi_copyin() copoies _into_ kernelspace,
I wiuld expedt the same for bp_copyin().
So
bp_copyin - copy into a buf_t
bp_copyout - copy out of a buf_t
Looks counter intuitive.
J?rg
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