Re: Proposal: Eliminate GFP_DMA

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Fri Feb 28 2003 - 12:45:40 EST


On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 15:44, Dmitry A. Fedorov wrote:
> 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.

ISA devices or ISA like devices on non x86-32 platforms already need to
do this to work on non PC boxes. I'm hoping the generic DMA framework
stuff will make that all much cleaner for 2.7

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