Re: 2.6.10-rc2-mm4

From: Alan Cox (alan_at_lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: 11/30/04

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    To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Date:	Tue, 30 Nov 2004 17:44:03 +0000

    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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