RE: [-mm PATCH] DMA engine kconfig improvements (rev2)

From: Nelson, Shannon
Date: Fri Aug 17 2007 - 11:59:41 EST


>From: Adrian Bunk [mailto:bunk@xxxxxxxxxx]
>Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 5:48 PM
>To: Nelson, Shannon
>Cc: akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;
>Williams, Dan J; ssatyam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: [-mm PATCH] DMA engine kconfig improvements (rev2)
>
>On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 05:10:25PM -0700, Shannon Nelson wrote:
>> From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> This patch contains the following changes to the DMA engine menus:
>>...
>> - make it clear in the INTEL_IOATDMA help text that this
>driver is for
>> rare hardware the user most likely doesn't has
>>...
>> +config INTEL_IOATDMA
>> + tristate "Intel I/OAT DMA support"
>> + depends on PCI && X86
>> + select DMA_ENGINE
>> + select DCA
>> + help
>> + Enable support for the Intel(R) I/OAT DMA engine present
>> + in recent chipsets.
>>...
>
>It seems the string "Xeon" somehow got lost, or is it now also
>available with other hardware?
>
>"in recent Intel Xeon chipsets"?
>
>cu
>Adrian

Good catch - however, it is probably best not to limit these things.

sln
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