Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Proposal: Eliminate GFP_DMA | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 28 Feb 2003 15:55:37 +0000 |
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On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 14:34, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > 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.
The ia64 is a fine example of how broken it is. People have to hack around with GFP_DMA meaning different things on ia64 to everything else. It needs to die.
Alan
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