> So I totally agree, GFP_DMA allocations really ought to fail in this > situation and we should fixup the users instead. It's just impossible to fix them without having a bounce buffer. The only way would be to not use the hardware. I guess we can find out how many people still use floppies and other such hardware by having it for some time in -mm*. But I reserve the right that if this thing becomes a FAQ - e.g. various people set the option wrong and break their systems to rip it out again. I'm not interested at all in patches that increase the bogus bug report rate. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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