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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Avoid to use kmalloc in usb/core/message.c
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
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On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 12:36 +0200, Duncan Sands wrote:
> > I wonder why the invocations of kmalloc are needed in these functions.
> 
> Because some architectures can't do DMA to/from the stack.

doing dma to/from kmalloc also isn't too nice... should be using
dma_alloc_*() API I guess