Re: Proposal: Eliminate GFP_DMA

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
04 Mar 2003 23:09:30 +0000

On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 17:56, Rogier Wolff wrote:
> All the modifier flags on kmalloc and GFP should be "memory allocation
> descriptors".
> A DMA pool descriptor will only point to pools that have that
> capability.

Much much too simple. DMA to what from where for example ? Post 2.6 its
IMHO a case of making the equivalent of pci_alloc_* pci_map_* work with
generic device objects now we have them.

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