Re: [PATCH] drivers/net/rcpci45 DMA mapping API conversion

Francois Romieu
2003-04-19T19:49:49Z

Re,

Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> :
[...]
> Ok, I finally got around to attacking this one. Your patch looked ok to
> me until I noticed one detail:
>
> pDpa->msgbuf = kmalloc (MSG_BUF_SIZE, GFP_DMA | GFP_KERNEL);
>
> The GFP_DMA tag indicates that we can't just use pci_alloc_consistent in
> the normal way, as we lose the GFP_DMA designator.

Does it mean the usual pci_set_dma_mask() cooking or something more elaborate ?

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Ueimor