SF Markus Elfring wrote:
: > What about the GFP_DMA attribute, which your patch deletes?
: > The buffer in question has to be ISA DMA-able.
:
: Thanks for your constructive feedback.
:
: Would you be interested in using a variant of the function "memdup_…"
: with which the corresponding memory allocation option can be preserved?
I am not sure that extending an in-kernel API just for one
legacy driver is what we want. As I said, I would prefer the driver
unchanged, if possible.
Maybe it is the time for gradually phasing out ISA DMA support and
all the legacy drivers which use it?
Sincerely,
-Yenya
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