fixing daq driver dma access

[Sven-Maurice Althoff <mosta.me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey everyone,

I need help for a small fix to a device driver for a daq card  The  only driver available to me uses the bigphysarea patch, to allocate physical memory for the dma access. The problem is that I can't find a newer patch that work with the 2.6.24 Kernel. So my question is with what memory allocator function should I replace it? Is there a other memory allocator that replaced it. 

greetings mosta