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Andrew Morton writes:
 > Well this is news to me.  No drivers understand this.
 > How long has this been the case?  What platforms?

The DMA interfaces may never fail and I've discussed this over and
over with port maintainers a _long_ time ago.

Don't worry Andrew.

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com