linux-kernel - Re: IrDA driver fails on PXA255

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Date:	Sun, 29 May 2011 14:19:40 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>
cc:	Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov@...il.com>,
	Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@...aro.org>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Eric Miao <eric.y.miao@...il.com>,
	Samuel Ortiz <samuel@...tiz.org>
Subject: Re: IrDA driver fails on PXA255

On Sun, 29 May 2011, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:

> > arm, pxa2xx: enable DMA support for pxa2xx IRDA interface
> > 
> > The pxa2xx-ir driver allocates with GFP_DMA, so it must always have 
> > ZONE_DMA.
> 
> Wrong way.  If there's no restrictions, drivers shouldn't be using
> GFP_DMA.  For the majority of SoCs, that's the case.
> 

That's great, but before you can actually determine what requires DMA for 
this driver and what doesn't, we need something for this merge window (and 
backported to -stable) so that users aren't forced to go through and 
enable CONFIG_ZONE_DMA on their own .config.

Is there a downside to enabling CONFIG_ZONE_DMA for all configs that 
compile this driver until a better solution can be found?
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