linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: Tree for October 24 - powerpc - build failure with !CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA

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Date:	Tue, 09 Dec 2008 08:54:29 +1100
From:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com>,
	Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@...mvista.com>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	linux-next@...r.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-ide@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: linux-next: Tree for October 24 - powerpc - build failure with
 !CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_PMAC

On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 08:53 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > > Seems like ppc people are either very busy or don't care...  Oh well...
> 
> Very busy will do it :-) Among others, having a second child is a hit on
> the hacking time !
> 
> In any case, I think we should contemplate removing the config option
> alltogether and make DMA support built unconditionally to simplify the
> mess, don't you think ?

Which is just what the patch does .. :-)

So Ack.

Cheers,
Ben.


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