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Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 19:00:00 +0300 From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org> To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Casey Dahlin <cdahlin@...hat.com>, x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch] x86: allow ZONE_DMA to be configurable On 10/13/2010 09:46 PM, David Rientjes wrote: >> I'm not running a CONFIG_EMBEDDED kernel and I'm pretty sure Casey isn't >> either, so we'd still need to carry our own patches to change the Kconfig >> bool line anyway. >> >> I'm suprised that we can't allow users who definitively know that they >> have no hardware limitations the ability to disable ZONE_DMA. Would a >> strong caution in the Kconfig "help" text suffice or will you not be >> convinced? On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 6:38 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com> wrote: > CONFIG_EMBEDDED *is* "I am a user who (think I) know what I'm doing". > That is *what it is* and *all it is*. Yup. The naming is quite unfortunate, though. Can we change it to something else? -- 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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