linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] dma-mapping: move all DMA mapping code to kernel/dma

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Date:   Thu, 14 Jun 2018 15:13:46 +0300
From:   Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:     iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] dma-mapping: move all DMA mapping code to kernel/dma

On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 3:00 PM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de> wrote:
> Currently the code is split over various files with dma- prefixes in the
> lib/ and drives/base directories, and the number of files keeps growing.
> Move them into a single directory to keep the code together and remove
> the file name prefixes.  To match the irq infrastructure this directory
> is placed under the kernel/ directory.

For my point of view, makes sense!

> +config HAS_DMA
> +       bool
> +       depends on !NO_DMA
> +       default y

I see it's just move from other file, though we might switch to
  def_bool y
instead of two lines.

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko