On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 13:30 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > I suspect all this horror is due to stupidity in the DMA API. > > pci_alloc_consistent() just goes and assumes GFP_ATOMIC, whereas > the caller (megasas_mgmt_fw_ioctl) would have been perfectly happy > to use GFP_KERNEL. > > I bet this fixes it It does, but the DMA API was expanded to cope with this exact case, so use dma_alloc_coherent() directly in the megaraid code instead. The dev is just &pci_dev->dev. James - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
