From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S2992544AbXCGUii (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Mar 2007 15:38:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S2992545AbXCGUii (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Mar 2007 15:38:38 -0500 Received: from mail.queued.net ([207.210.101.209]:1237 "EHLO mail.queued.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2992544AbXCGUih (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Mar 2007 15:38:37 -0500 Message-ID: <45EF22CF.9030205@debian.org> Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2007 15:38:39 -0500 From: Andres Salomon User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20070102) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christoph Lameter CC: Dave Jones , Andrew Morton , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: don't use ZONE_DMA unless CONFIG_ZONE_DMA is set in setup.c References: <45EDFEDB.3000507@debian.org> <20070306175246.b1253ec3.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070307040248.GA30278@redhat.com> <45EE42BC.6030209@debian.org> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.2.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Tue, 6 Mar 2007, Andres Salomon wrote: > >> It would've been nice to see the ZONE_DMA removal patches just #define >> ZONE_DMA regardless, and include less #ifdefs scattered about; but at >> this point, I'd just as soon prefer to see a proper way to allocate >> things based on address constraints (as discussed in >> http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/archives/linux-ia64/0609/19036.html). > > Would you be willing to work on that? I can sent you a bunch of unfinished > patches if you have the time. Sure, I'd be willing to work on it. Whether or not I have the time is questionable, but it wouldn't hurt to send them..