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    SubjectRe: Proposal: Eliminate GFP_DMA
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    On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 17:56, Rogier Wolff wrote:
    > All the modifier flags on kmalloc and GFP should be "memory allocation
    > descriptors".
    > A DMA pool descriptor will only point to pools that have that
    > capability.

    Much much too simple. DMA to what from where for example ? Post 2.6 its
    IMHO a case of making the equivalent of pci_alloc_* pci_map_* work with
    generic device objects now we have them.

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