diff --git a/arch/x86_64/kernel/pci-gart.c b/arch/x86_64/kernel/pci-gart.c
index 6d3e61baf7a0159c015f4b439d88fe404dcb129a..16261a8a3303ed044fba4b31eb612a9f9c3454aa 100644
--- a/arch/x86_64/kernel/pci-gart.c
+++ b/arch/x86_64/kernel/pci-gart.c
@@ -239,8 +239,6 @@ dma_addr_t gart_map_single(struct device *dev, void *addr, size_t size, int dir)
 {
 	unsigned long phys_mem, bus;
 
-	BUG_ON(dir == DMA_NONE);
-
 	if (!dev)
 		dev = &fallback_dev;
 
@@ -383,7 +381,6 @@ int gart_map_sg(struct device *dev, struct scatterlist *sg, int nents, int dir)
 	unsigned long pages = 0;
 	int need = 0, nextneed;
 
-	BUG_ON(dir == DMA_NONE);
 	if (nents == 0) 
 		return 0;
 
diff --git a/arch/x86_64/kernel/pci-nommu.c b/arch/x86_64/kernel/pci-nommu.c
index aad7609d8e9249e6d9121128e723838a4e508da6..df09ab05a1bd1efbb931d893a4f174f6f00ac651 100644
--- a/arch/x86_64/kernel/pci-nommu.c
+++ b/arch/x86_64/kernel/pci-nommu.c
@@ -59,7 +59,6 @@ int nommu_map_sg(struct device *hwdev, struct scatterlist *sg,
 {
 	int i;
 
-	BUG_ON(direction == DMA_NONE);
  	for (i = 0; i < nents; i++ ) {
 		struct scatterlist *s = &sg[i];
 		BUG_ON(!s->page);