The patch titled scsi: remove __GFP_DMA has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is scsi-remove-__gfp_dma.patch *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: scsi: remove __GFP_DMA From: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@xxxxxxx> After 821de3a27bf33f11ec878562577c586cd5f83c64, it's not necessary to allocate a DMA buffer any more in sd.c. Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@xxxxxxx> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/scsi/sd.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN drivers/scsi/sd.c~scsi-remove-__gfp_dma drivers/scsi/sd.c --- a/drivers/scsi/sd.c~scsi-remove-__gfp_dma +++ a/drivers/scsi/sd.c @@ -1515,7 +1515,7 @@ static int sd_revalidate_disk(struct gen if (!scsi_device_online(sdp)) goto out; - buffer = kmalloc(SD_BUF_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_DMA); + buffer = kmalloc(SD_BUF_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL); if (!buffer) { sd_printk(KERN_WARNING, sdkp, "sd_revalidate_disk: Memory " "allocation failure.\n"); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from bwalle@xxxxxxx are git-r8169.patch scsi-remove-__gfp_dma.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html