Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: 2.6.10-rc2-mm4 | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Tue, 30 Nov 2004 17:44:03 +0000 |
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On Maw, 2004-11-30 at 18:32, Andrew Morton wrote: > "This helps mainly graphic drivers who really need a lot of memory below > the 4GB area. Previous they could only use IOMMU+16MB GFP_DMA, which was > not enough memory." > > > Is there code using the zone GFP mask yet ?? > > Nope.
You mean its a private hook for a proprietary graphics driver, which because it is that can't use it anyway ? That sounds dubious to me as policy has always been to avoid such hooks. What other drivers need this - I've seen people claim aacraid does which is untrue but no others.
Alan
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