Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:46:01 +0200
From: Haavard Skinnemoen <haavard.skinnemoen@atmel.com>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
       Pierre Ossman <drzeus-list@drzeus.cx>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org, kernel@avr32linux.org,
       shannon.nelson@intel.com, David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 4/6] dmaengine: Make DMA Engine menu visible for
 AVR32 users
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Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> wrote:
> That discussion is mixing two different things I suggested besides other 
> things before the Kconfig file was added [1]:
> - have DMA_ENGINE select'ed when a device gets enabled by the user,
>   and not be an independent option
> - switch to menuconfig and don't offer an empty kconfig menu
> 
> There seems to be no disagreement about the former (which could 
> otherwise easily lead to users mistakenly enabling NET_DMA).
> 
> The latter is more a cosmetical kconfig UI thing, and I already said
> back then that it "could be dropped if it would become a problem" [2].

Ok, thanks for explaining. The menu does appear empty if I remove the
architecture dependency without adding the driver...if that's a problem
maybe we should do the HAVE_DMA_DEVICE thing...

> So if you want to remove the architecture dependency from the DMADEVICES 
> menu that's OK with me.

Ok, I'm gonna wait for Dan and others to respond. If it's fine with
them, I'll post a patch removing the arch dependency.

Haavard
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