[alsa-devel] ALSA 1.0.17rc2 release

[Takashi Iwai]

At Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:12:06 +0200 (CEST),
Jaroslav Kysela wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 17 Jun 2008, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> 
> > At Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:42:40 +0200 (CEST),
> > Jaroslav Kysela wrote:
> > > 
> > > On Tue, 17 Jun 2008, Alan Horstmann wrote:
> > > 
> > > > I have just confirmed that pasting
> > > > 
> > > > 	#define GFP_DMA32	((__force gfp_t)0x04u)
> > > > 
> > > > into /alsa-kernel/pci/emu10k1/memory.c (not a correct fix -just taken from 
> > > > 2.6.24 headers) enables build to complete.  So there should be no other 
> > > > hidden issues.
> > > 
> > > Could you try attached patch (also pasted bellow)?
> > 
> > That's too overhead.  A simple #ifndef GFP_DMA32 would work.
> > And, GFP_DMA32 isn't GFP_DMA.
> 
> But old kernels with dma_mask < 0xffffffff sets GFP_DMA flag for page 
> allocation. So there's no regression.

GFP_DMA32 means to allocate from ZONE_DMA32 which was a part of
ZONE_NORMAL.


Takashi