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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Phillip Susi <psusi@cfl.rr.com>
Cc: Jun Sun <jsun@junsun.net>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Can Linux live without DMA zone?
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2006 18:02:54 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1162490574.11965.224.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <454A1D82.7040709@cfl.rr.com>

Ar Iau, 2006-11-02 am 11:32 -0500, ysgrifennodd Phillip Susi:
> Shouldn't only ancient ISA drivers be using GFP_DMA?  You know, ones 
> that actually require it?  PCI drivers should not have this limit.

"Should" and "Do not" are different things. Many PCI drivers have
interesting little limits.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-11-02 17:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-02  2:15 Can Linux live without DMA zone? Jun Sun
2006-11-02  9:16 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-11-02 10:32 ` Paul Mundt
2006-11-02 16:32 ` Phillip Susi
2006-11-02 16:57   ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-11-02 19:08     ` Phillip Susi
2006-11-02 20:10       ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-11-02 21:26         ` Phillip Susi
2006-11-02 22:19           ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-11-02 23:17             ` Jun Sun
2006-11-02 23:24               ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-11-06  2:19               ` Phillip Susi
2006-11-03 17:54             ` Krzysztof Halasa
2006-11-02 18:02   ` Alan Cox [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-11-02  3:43 Conke Hu
2006-11-02  7:13 ` Peter Zijlstra
2006-11-02 16:13   ` Christoph Lameter
2006-11-02 10:33 Conke Hu
2006-11-02 10:51 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-11-02 13:09 ` Alan Cox

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