Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 28 Feb 2003 14:34:05 +0000 | From | Matthew Wilcox <> | Subject | Re: Proposal: Eliminate GFP_DMA |
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On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 03:24:58PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 14:12, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > i'm not the kind of person who just changes the header file and breaks all > > the drivers. plan: > > > > - Add the GFP_ATOMIC_DMA & GFP_KERNEL_DMA definitions > > - Change the drivers > > - Delete the GFP_DMA definition > > Needless pain for people maintaining cross release drivers. Save it for > 2.7 where we should finally do the honourable deed given x86-64 may well > be mainstream, and simply remove GFP_DMA and expect people to use > pci_*
umm. are you volunteering to convert drivers/net/macmace.c to the pci_* API then? also, GFP_DMA is used on, eg, s390 to get memory below 2GB and on ia64 to get memory below 4GB.
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