Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764400AbXHMXMg (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:12:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756407AbXHMXMT (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:12:19 -0400 Received: from netops-testserver-3-out.sgi.com ([192.48.171.28]:54805 "EHLO relay.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756784AbXHMXMS (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:12:18 -0400 Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 16:12:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter X-X-Sender: clameter@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com To: Andi Kleen cc: Mel Gorman , Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] Embed zone_id information within the zonelist->zones pointer In-Reply-To: <20070813235518.GK3406@bingen.suse.de> Message-ID: References: <200708110304.55433.ak@suse.de> <20070813225020.GE3406@bingen.suse.de> <20070813225841.GG3406@bingen.suse.de> <20070813230801.GH3406@bingen.suse.de> <20070813234217.GI3406@bingen.suse.de> <20070813235518.GK3406@bingen.suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 523 Lines: 15 On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, Andi Kleen wrote: > > What would be the point? > > "so that drivers not need to ifdef" But they use GFP_DMA right now and drivers cannot use DMA32 if they want to be cross platforms compatible? Doesnt the dma API completely do away with these things? - 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/