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To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
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Subject: Re: Proposal: Eliminate GFP_DMA
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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Date: 28 Feb 2003 09:56:41 +0100
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Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org> writes:
> -
> +#define GFP_ATOMIC_DMA (GFP_ATOMIC | __GFP_DMA)
> +#define GFP_KERNEL_DMA (GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_DMA)
> 
> combined with changing some users to use __GFP_DMA if they really do mean
> the bitmask.  Comments?

Sounds like a good 2.7.x early project. Currently we still have too much
driver breakage for the next release to break even more right now.

-Andi
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