From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755918AbcAWEq5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jan 2016 23:46:57 -0500 Received: from mail-pf0-f172.google.com ([209.85.192.172]:35819 "EHLO mail-pf0-f172.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755785AbcAWEqz (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jan 2016 23:46:55 -0500 Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2016 10:16:43 +0530 From: Sudip Mukherjee To: Dan Williams , Christoph Hellwig Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , Ingo Molnar , Dave Hansen , Rik van Riel , Mel Gorman , Jerome Glisse , markk@clara.co.uk, jroedel@suse.de, bp@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [BUG] Devices breaking due to CONFIG_ZONE_DEVICE Message-ID: <20160123044643.GA3709@sudip-pc> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi All, Commit 033fbae988fc ("mm: ZONE_DEVICE for "device memory"") has introduced CONFIG_ZONE_DEVICE while sacrificing CONFIG_ZONE_DMA. Distributions like Ubuntu has started enabling CONFIG_ZONE_DEVICE and thus breaking parallel port. Please have a look at https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=110931 for the bug report. Apart from parallel port I can see some sound drivers will also break. Now what is the possible solution for this? Regards Sudip