Re: [PATCH] Make GFP_DMA allocations w/o ZONE_DMA emit a warninginstead of failing

[Linus Torvalds]

On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 3:04 AM, Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov
<dbaryshkov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Please be more polite to other people. After a197b59ae6 all allocations
> with GFP_DMA set on nodes without ZONE_DMA fail nearly silently (only
> one warning during bootup is emited, no matter how many things fail).
> This is a very crude change on behaviour. To be more civil, instead of
> failing emit noisy warnings each time smbd. tries to allocate a GFP_DMA
> memory on non-ZONE_DMA node.

The whole thing already got reverted in commit 1fa7b6a29c613.

                   Linus
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