linux-kernel - Re: [RFC v3 5/7] dmaengine: Make DMA Engine menu visible for AVR32 users

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Message-ID: <20080212204330.GA3184@lixom.net>
Date:	Tue, 12 Feb 2008 14:43:30 -0600
From:	Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>
To:	Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@...el.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
	Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@...el.com>,
	David Brownell <david-b@...bell.net>, kernel@...32linux.org,
	Francis Moreau <francis.moro@...il.com>,
	Paul Mundt <lethal@...ux-sh.org>,
	"Vladimir A. Barinov" <vbarinov@...mvista.com>,
	Pierre Ossman <drzeus-list@...eus.cx>
Subject: Re: [RFC v3 5/7] dmaengine: Make DMA Engine menu visible for AVR32
	users

Hi,

On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 05:43:56PM +0100, Haavard Skinnemoen wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@...el.com>
> ---
>  drivers/dma/Kconfig |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/dma/Kconfig b/drivers/dma/Kconfig
> index 893a3f8..1a727c1 100644
> --- a/drivers/dma/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/dma/Kconfig
> @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
>  
>  menuconfig DMADEVICES
>  	bool "DMA Engine support"
> -	depends on (PCI && X86) || ARCH_IOP32X || ARCH_IOP33X || ARCH_IOP13XX
> +	depends on (PCI && X86) || ARCH_IOP32X || ARCH_IOP33X || ARCH_IOP13XX || AVR32

This is a slippery slope. Things should be the other way around instead,
create a HAVE_DMA_DEVICE, select it in the relevant platform code and
make DMADEVICES depend on that.

Or just let the subsystem always be available.


-Olof
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