On Wed, 6 Oct 2004 19:51:22 +0200
Miguel Mendez <flynn@energyhq.es.eu.org> wrote:

> Interesting, I'll give it a try. In the long term it would be better to
> fix the bug, though, but thanks a lot for the workaround.

AFAIK, the problem is that there is no way in the kernel to ask for a consecutive
block of memory.  Thus, when the memory is very fragmented, the USB device can't
map a single, big chunk of memory for its own uses.  And, IIRC, this is not a
trivial job - though I agree, we should have this for USB to be usable.

You'll find more information in the tech-kern@ archives probably.

Cheers

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