[PATCH] drm: drop setting vm_file to filp

Dave Airlie airlied at gmail.com
Thu Feb 23 04:04:40 PST 2012


On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Dave Airlie <airlied at gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Dave Airlie <airlied at redhat.com>
>
> Talking to Al Viro on irc, we can see no possible reason for doing
> this, the upper mmap code does it. The code has been there since
> first import into drm tree I can find.
>
> Of course it probably means this will crash and burn.

Al tracked down the core vm changed in 2.3.51pre1 so this should be safe now :-)

Dave.


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