Re: [PATCH] Avoid to use kmalloc in usb/core/message.c

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Tue Jul 05 2005 - 06:35:19 EST


On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 12:36 +0200, Duncan Sands wrote:
> > I wonder why the invocations of kmalloc are needed in these functions.
>
> Because some architectures can't do DMA to/from the stack.

doing dma to/from kmalloc also isn't too nice... should be using
dma_alloc_*() API I guess


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