> What about the GFP_DMA attribute, which your patch deletes? > The buffer in question has to be ISA DMA-able. Thanks for your constructive feedback. Would you be interested in using a variant of the function "memdup_…" with which the corresponding memory allocation option can be preserved? Regards, Markus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html