linux-kernel - [-mm patch] the ASYNC_* options shouldn't be user visible

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Message-ID: <20070602190907.GK5500@stusta.de>
Date:	Sat, 2 Jun 2007 21:09:07 +0200
From:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [-mm patch] the ASYNC_* options shouldn't be user visible

On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 11:58:23PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>...
> Changes since 2.6.22-rc2-mm1:
>...
>  git-md-accel.patch
>...
>  git trees
>...


The ASYNC_* options are for internal helper code and should therefore 
not be user visible.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>

---

BTW: Please move the async_tx directory under drivers/ or lib/

 async_tx/Kconfig |   28 ++++++++--------------------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

--- linux-2.6.22-rc3-mm1/async_tx/Kconfig.old	2007-06-02 19:30:32.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.22-rc3-mm1/async_tx/Kconfig	2007-06-02 19:31:20.000000000 +0200
@@ -1,27 +1,15 @@
-menuconfig ASYNC_CORE
-	tristate "Asynchronous Bulk Memory Transfers/Transforms"
-	default n
-	---help---
-	  This enables the async_tx interface layer for dma (offload) engines.
-	  Subsystems coded to this api will use offload engines for bulk memory
-	  operations (e.g. memcpy, memset, xor...).  When an offload engine is not
-	  available the interface will implicitly fall back to a software
-	  implementation of the operation.
-
-	  If unsure, say N
-
-if ASYNC_CORE
+config ASYNC_CORE
+	tristate
 
 config ASYNC_MEMCPY
-	default m
-	tristate "async_memcpy support"
+	tristate
+	select ASYNC_CORE
 
 config ASYNC_XOR
-	default m
-	tristate "async_xor support"
+	tristate
+	select ASYNC_CORE
 
 config ASYNC_MEMSET
-	default m
-	tristate "async_memset support"
+	tristate
+	select ASYNC_CORE
 
-endif

-
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