Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 1 Jun 2011 08:54:20 +0100 | From | Russell King - ARM Linux <> | Subject | Re: IrDA driver fails on PXA255 |
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On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 03:11:40PM -0700, David Rientjes wrote: > The restriction isn't new: GFP_DMA only makes sense with CONFIG_ZONE_DMA. > The fact that the page allocator completely ignored GFP_DMA in the past > for CONFIG_ZONE_DMA=n doesn't change that. That's obviously error prone > since it will return memory from anywhere simply because of the fact that > it is an invalid configuration.
Your approach to this is wrong. Make it warn for one release. Give people a chance to fix things before they become a regression. Then make it a hard failure.
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