From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Russell King Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 14:42:36 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6] Introduce CONFIG_ZONE_DMA Message-Id: <20060918144235.GD1523@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> List-Id: References: <20060911222729.4849.69497.sendpatchset@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com> <20060911222739.4849.79915.sendpatchset@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com> <20060918135559.GB15096@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <20060918135559.GB15096@infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Christoph Lameter , linux-mm@vger.kernel.org, Nick Piggin , linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, Marcelo Tosatti , Arjan van de Ven , Martin Bligh , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , Andi Kleen , linux-arch@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 02:55:59PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Let's pass this on to linux-arch so that the arch maintainers can give input > whether they need ZONE_DMA or not. If this just sneaks in unseen I'd bet > various architectures will just keept it around despite not needing it. Thanks Chris - I'd have missed this otherwise. FWIW, several ARM platforms do make use of ZONE_DMA, though not all, so it's not safe to assume that it can be turned off just because it's ARM. -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core