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Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 09:44:03 +0100 From: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@...el.com> To: "Dan Williams" <dan.j.williams@...el.com> Cc: "Olof Johansson" <olof@...om.net>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, "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>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de> Subject: Re: [RFC v3 5/7] dmaengine: Make DMA Engine menu visible for AVR32 users On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:27:29 -0700 "Dan Williams" <dan.j.williams@...el.com> wrote: > > > Or just let the subsystem always be available. > > > > It used to be always available, but then it was changed. Assuming there > > was a reason for this change, I guess we don't want to change it back. > > > > Adrian had concerns about users enabling NET_DMA when the hardware > capability is relatively rare. So, +1 for HAVE_DMA_DEVICE Why not introduce a new hidden symbol, e.g. DMA_ENGINE_DRIVER, have all the drivers select it and let NET_DMA depend on it? Wait a minute...the Kconfig already does this. What was the problem again? Haavard -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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