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On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 09:49:33PM +0000, Russell King wrote:
> a) parisc.  Looking at pa11_dma_alloc_consistent:

If James is wrong and it's un-safe to call dma_alloc_consistent() on
the interrupt path, I'm only slightly worried since I've only seen
dma_alloc_consistent() get called during driver initialization.
DMA-mapping.txt does not restrict what context "driver initialization"
might take place in.

grant