From: Adrian Bunk [mailto:bunk@stusta.de] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 10:26 PM
To: Andrew Morton; Nelson, Shannon
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [-mm patch] DMA engine kconfig improvements

On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 04:03:04AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:

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Changes since 2.6.22-rc6-mm1:
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+dma-arch-fix.patch

 Fix git-dma.patch
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This results in an ARM-only driver in an X86-only menu...

What about the patch below instead that also improves a few 
other things?


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This patch contains the following changes to the DMA engine menus:
- switch to menuconfig
- INTEL_IOATDMA must depend on X86
- INTEL_IOATDMA must select DCA
- device drivers shouldn't "default m"
- DCA shouldn't be a user visible option
- make it clear in the INTEL_IOATDMA help text that this driver is for
 rare hardware the user most likely doesn't has
- let DMA_ENGINE be select'ed by the DMA devices, making it less likely
 for a user to accidentally enable NET_DMA

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <redacted>

Thanks, Adrian.  With a couple minor notes changes, I'm using this
patch.  What's nice is this also takes care of the DCA configuration
issue as well such that I don't need to add #ifdef's to the code.  Doing
this changes an argument I gave to Satyam, but the effect is small
enough that it shouldn't matter.

Once I get my git tree cleaned up again (I'll learn this part yet...)
I'll have it out, probably tomorrow.

sln
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