Re: Proposal: Eliminate GFP_DMA

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Fri Feb 28 2003 - 10:24:58 EST


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_*

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