linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.22-rc1-mm1

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Date:	Fri, 18 May 2007 07:39:46 +0200
From:	Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com>
To:	"Williams, Dan J" <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
Cc:	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, "NeilBrown" <neilb@...e.de>,
	"Martin Schwidefsky" <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
	"linux-s390" <linux-s390@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.22-rc1-mm1 - s390 vs. md

On Wed, 16 May 2007 23:36:56 -0700,
"Williams, Dan J" <dan.j.williams@...el.com> wrote:

> async_tx: add the Kconfig infrastructure for async_tx
> 
> From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
> 
> async_tx is similar to crypto in that there is an api component and a
> drivers component.
> 
> * Add 'source "async_tx/Kconfig"' to the per architecture Kconfig files,
>   for each architecture that sources drivers/md/Kconfig (which appears
> to be
>   all of them).
> * Add 'select' statements for the subsystems that use async_tx
> (md-raid4,5)

Finer granularity is certainly better here, but I'm not quite sure if
this solves our s390 problem (we don't have dma support). All those
backends should also have a non-dma version...
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