Re: IrDA driver fails on PXA255

[David Rientjes]

On Sun, 29 May 2011, Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov wrote:

> What about changing your patch for less intrusive one (to emit a
> WARN_ON) for at least one
> or two major releases and only then changing it back to the current state?
> 

That would return memory that is not guaranteed to be within the first 
16MB of address space, so a GFP_DMA allocation would succeed with memory 
not from ZONE_DMA.  That's an invalid configuration, so users, including 
you, should at least edit their .config by hand to enable CONFIG_ZONE_DMA 
as a workaround.  Then, we should try to fix up the Kconfig entries for 
drivers requiring DMA allocations to select CONFIG_ZONE_DMA or fix 
defconfigs when DMA is known to be needed for a device.
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