Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757428AbYBMIo0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Feb 2008 03:44:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753455AbYBMIoS (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Feb 2008 03:44:18 -0500 Received: from nat-132.atmel.no ([80.232.32.132]:60288 "EHLO relay.atmel.no" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753120AbYBMIoS (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Feb 2008 03:44:18 -0500 Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 09:44:03 +0100 From: Haavard Skinnemoen To: "Dan Williams" Cc: "Olof Johansson" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Shannon Nelson" , "David Brownell" , kernel@avr32linux.org, "Francis Moreau" , "Paul Mundt" , "Vladimir A. Barinov" , "Pierre Ossman" , Adrian Bunk Subject: Re: [RFC v3 5/7] dmaengine: Make DMA Engine menu visible for AVR32 users Message-ID: <20080213094403.1d6ebe8c@dhcp-252-066.norway.atmel.com> In-Reply-To: References: <1202834638-9009-1-git-send-email-hskinnemoen@atmel.com> <1202834638-9009-2-git-send-email-hskinnemoen@atmel.com> <1202834638-9009-3-git-send-email-hskinnemoen@atmel.com> <1202834638-9009-4-git-send-email-hskinnemoen@atmel.com> <1202834638-9009-5-git-send-email-hskinnemoen@atmel.com> <20080212204330.GA3184@lixom.net> <20080212231330.79738c3a@siona> Organization: Atmel Norway X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.2.0 (GTK+ 2.12.5; i486-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 889 Lines: 23 On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:27:29 -0700 "Dan Williams" 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@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/