Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751256AbWKBR7N (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Nov 2006 12:59:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751326AbWKBR7N (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Nov 2006 12:59:13 -0500 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:1222 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751256AbWKBR7N (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Nov 2006 12:59:13 -0500 Subject: Re: Can Linux live without DMA zone? From: Alan Cox To: Phillip Susi Cc: Jun Sun , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <454A1D82.7040709@cfl.rr.com> References: <20061102021547.GA1240@srv.junsun.net> <454A1D82.7040709@cfl.rr.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2006 18:02:54 +0000 Message-Id: <1162490574.11965.224.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.2 (2.6.2-1.fc5.5) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 542 Lines: 12 Ar Iau, 2006-11-02 am 11:32 -0500, ysgrifennodd Phillip Susi: > Shouldn't only ancient ISA drivers be using GFP_DMA? You know, ones > that actually require it? PCI drivers should not have this limit. "Should" and "Do not" are different things. Many PCI drivers have interesting little limits. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/