Re: (kconfig) IDE DMA dependencies

From: Alan Cox
Date: Fri Sep 12 2003 - 18:16:42 EST


On Sad, 2003-09-13 at 00:05, Hollis Blanchard wrote:
> drivers/built-in.o(.text+0x39f90): In function `init_dma_generic':
> drivers/ide/pci/generic.c:77: undefined reference to `ide_setup_dma'
> drivers/built-in.o(.text+0x4a7e8): In function `ide_hwif_setup_dma':
> drivers/ide/setup-pci.c:511: undefined reference to `ide_setup_dma'
>
> Even if it is stubbed correctly though, don't we want DMA (i.e. it's
> safe) with most of those drivers?

Thats up to the user. Removing the DMA support makes no real difference
for many devices (eg CF cards) but saves a chunk of RAM

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