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SubjectRe: [PATCH] introduce config option to disable DMA zone on i386
Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> ...but Marcelo's patch doesn't implement anything of that kind....
> In addition, many ISA bus drivers do not use the DMA API *at all*
> currently. If you want to fix them all up, great! But somehow I doubt
> those will get fixed in the next decade.. they've been like this for at
> least half a decade or longer :-)

Point being, if this doesn't already work it's likely a bug even without
this patch. And drivers that don't use the DMA API should at least be
allocating memory with GFP_DMA which should fail if that zone doesn't
contain any memory (and if not, that's likely a bug as well).

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