Re: [PATCH] dma-mapping: Remove WARN_ON in dma_free_coherent

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 08:09:21PM +0200, Stefan Bader wrote:
> But it seems modifying that driver would be a bigger effort and maybe
> not really worthwile as it is a rather old driver. On the other side
> I was told [1] that this WARN_ON applies only to ARM which could sleep
> in the free path and it is just bogus for X86. As the code is in
> arch/x86 it would never be used for anything else than X86 and if
> its truely bogus on X86, couldn't it get removed?

My suggestion was that you remove it from the Ubuntu kernel, not submit
it upstream.

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