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Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 21:44:14 +0600
From: "Dmitry A. Fedorov" <D.A.Fedorov@inp.nsk.su>
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Subject: Re: Proposal: Eliminate GFP_DMA
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On 28 Feb 2003, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 14:12, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > i'm not the kind of person who just changes the header file and breaks all
> > the drivers.  plan:
> > 
> >  - Add the GFP_ATOMIC_DMA & GFP_KERNEL_DMA definitions
> >  - Change the drivers
> >  - Delete the GFP_DMA definition
> 
> Needless pain for people maintaining cross release drivers. Save it for
> 2.7 where we should finally do the honourable deed given x86-64 may well
> be mainstream, and simply remove GFP_DMA and expect people to use 
> pci_*

But why drivers of ISA bus devices with DMA should use pci_* functions?

I'm personally wouldn't have too much pain with GFP_DMA because I have
compatibility headers and proposed change for them is tiny.

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