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On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, Andi Kleen wrote:

> > What would be the point?
> 
> "so that drivers not need to ifdef" 

But they use GFP_DMA right now and drivers cannot use DMA32 if they want 
to be cross platforms compatible? Doesnt the dma API completely do away 
with these things?