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Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 11:27:19 -0700
From: Deepak Saxena <dsaxena@mvista.com>
To: Deepak Saxena <dsaxena@mvista.com>
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Subject: Re: Proposal: Eliminate GFP_DMA
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I would like to add/clarify that I'm not suggesting this only for the
mapping functions, but for the whole DMA API. So for example, 
dma_alloc_coherent would again return a dma_handle that is valid on
the bus that dev->bus points to.

~Deepak


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