Re: Can Linux live without DMA zone?

From: Alan Cox
Date: Thu Nov 02 2006 - 13:01:37 EST


Ar Iau, 2006-11-02 am 11:32 -0500, ysgrifennodd Phillip Susi:
> Shouldn't only ancient ISA drivers be using GFP_DMA? You know, ones
> that actually require it? PCI drivers should not have this limit.

"Should" and "Do not" are different things. Many PCI drivers have
interesting little limits.

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