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On Friday 22 September 2006 06:02, Christoph Lameter wrote: > We have repeatedly discussed the problems of devices having varying > address range requirements for doing DMA. We already have such an API. dma_alloc_coherent(). Device drivers are not supposed to mess with GFP_DMA* directly anymore for quite some time. > We would like for the device > drivers to have the ability to specify exactly which address range is > allowed. I actually have my doubts it is a good idea to add that now. The devices with weird requirements are steadily going away. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||
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