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Re: [PATCH 7/9] iwlwifi: fix Tx cmd memory allocation failure handling

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From: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed,  3 Sep 2008 11:18:48 +0800

> From: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> This patch "iwlwifi: do not use GFP_DMA in iwl_tx_queue_init" removes
> GFP_DMA from allocation tx command buffers. GFP_DMA allows allocation
> only for memory under 16M which causes allocation problems
> suspend/resume flows.
> 
> Using kmalloc is temporal solution and some consistent/coherent
> allocation schema will be more correct. Since iwlwifi hardware
> supports 64bit address this solution should work on x86 (32 and
> 64bit) for now.
> 
> This patch fixes memory freeing problem in the previous patch.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Ian Schram <ischram@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@xxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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