Re: [PATCH] siano: make it work again with CONFIG_VMAP_STACK

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On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 05:32:11PM -0200, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> Reported as a Kaffeine bug:
> 	https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=375811
> 
> The USB control messages require DMA to work. We cannot pass
> a stack-allocated buffer, as it is not warranted that the
> stack would be into a DMA enabled area.
> 
> On Kernel 4.9, the default is to not accept DMA on stack anymore.
> 
> Tested with USB ID 2040:5510: Hauppauge Windham
> 
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # For 4.9+

Unless there is some major reason, this should go into _all_ stable
releases, as the driver would be broken on them all for platforms that
can't handle USB data that is not DMA-able.  This has been a requirement
for USB drivers since the 2.2 days.

thanks,

greg k-h
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