Re: [PATCH 001/002] linux-input: bcm5974-0.31: fixed resource leak, removed work struct, device data struct introduced

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On Tue, 1 Jul 2008 20:04:16 -0700 David Brownell <david-b@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tuesday 01 July 2008, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > I dunno what USB driver normally use for their dma memory. __Perhaps
> > dma_alloc_coherent()?
> 
> kmalloc() as a rule ...

kmalloc(GFP_DMA)?  Hopefully not...

> dma_alloc_coherent() only makes sense if
> the buffer gets reused enough that the dma mapping ops (or as I
> think of them, cache maintainence ops) really hurt.
> 
> - Dave
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