Re: 2.6.10-rc2-mm4

[Alan Cox]

On Maw, 2004-11-30 at 18:32, Andrew Morton wrote:
> "This helps mainly graphic drivers who really need a lot of memory below
> the 4GB area.  Previous they could only use IOMMU+16MB GFP_DMA, which was
> not enough memory."
> 
> >  Is there code using the zone GFP mask yet ??
> 
> Nope.

You mean its a private hook for a proprietary graphics driver, which
because it is that can't use it anyway ? That sounds dubious to me as
policy has always been to avoid such hooks. What other drivers need this
- I've seen people claim aacraid does which is untrue but no others.

Alan

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