Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Thu, 28 Dec 2006 14:14:17 -0600 | From | Robert Hancock <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] introduce config option to disable DMA zone on i386 |
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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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