From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Proposal: Eliminate GFP_DMA
Date: 28 Feb 2003 15:24:58 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1046445897.16599.60.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030228141234.H23865@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 14:12, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> i'm not the kind of person who just changes the header file and breaks all
> the drivers. plan:
>
> - Add the GFP_ATOMIC_DMA & GFP_KERNEL_DMA definitions
> - Change the drivers
> - Delete the GFP_DMA definition
Needless pain for people maintaining cross release drivers. Save it for
2.7 where we should finally do the honourable deed given x86-64 may well
be mainstream, and simply remove GFP_DMA and expect people to use
pci_*
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-02-28 14:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20030228064631.G23865@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2003-02-28 8:56 ` Andi Kleen
2003-02-28 14:12 ` Matthew Wilcox
2003-02-28 15:24 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2003-02-28 14:34 ` Matthew Wilcox
2003-02-28 15:55 ` Alan Cox
2003-02-28 14:56 ` Andi Kleen
2003-02-28 15:25 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-02-28 15:30 ` Andi Kleen
2003-02-28 15:34 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-02-28 15:49 ` Eli Carter
2003-02-28 16:03 ` Russell King
2003-02-28 16:45 ` Alan Cox
2003-02-28 15:31 ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-03-04 17:56 ` Rogier Wolff
2003-03-04 23:09 ` Alan Cox
2003-03-05 7:43 ` Rogier Wolff
2003-03-05 13:53 ` Alan Cox
2003-02-28 15:44 ` Dmitry A. Fedorov
2003-02-28 15:58 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-02-28 18:17 ` Deepak Saxena
2003-02-28 18:27 ` Deepak Saxena
2003-02-28 19:52 ` Russell King
[not found] ` <mailman.1046456425.7772.linux-kernel2news@redhat.com>
2003-02-28 20:51 ` Pete Zaitcev
2003-02-28 22:11 ` Russell King
2003-02-28 16:05 ` Russell King
2003-02-28 17:27 ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2003-02-28 17:45 ` Alan Cox
2003-02-28 6:46 Matthew Wilcox
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