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authorHaavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>2007-11-28 19:21:43 -0500
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-11-29 12:24:53 -0500
commit6d4f5879b6f4da50bde94e1cae73755978ed048f (patch)
tree149340866e3a7d65fca49763ce7caa56ada370c4 /drivers/dma
parente593f070b40887dc0415646a4c0720eb8630c722 (diff)
dmaengine: correct invalid assumptions in the Kconfig text
This patch corrects recently changed (and now invalid) Kconfig descriptions for the DMA engine framework: - Non-Intel(R) hardware also has DMA engines; - DMA is used for more than memcpy and RAID offloading. In fact, on most platforms memcpy and RAID aren't factors, and DMA exists so that peripherals can transfer data to/from memory while the CPU does other work. Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com> Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/dma')
-rw-r--r--drivers/dma/Kconfig8
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/dma/Kconfig b/drivers/dma/Kconfig
index 6a7d25fc247..c46b7c219ee 100644
--- a/drivers/dma/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/dma/Kconfig
@@ -3,11 +3,13 @@
3# 3#
4 4
5menuconfig DMADEVICES 5menuconfig DMADEVICES
6 bool "DMA Offload Engine support" 6 bool "DMA Engine support"
7 depends on (PCI && X86) || ARCH_IOP32X || ARCH_IOP33X || ARCH_IOP13XX 7 depends on (PCI && X86) || ARCH_IOP32X || ARCH_IOP33X || ARCH_IOP13XX
8 help 8 help
9 Intel(R) offload engines enable offloading memory copies in the 9 DMA engines can do asynchronous data transfers without
10 network stack and RAID operations in the MD driver. 10 involving the host CPU. Currently, this framework can be
11 used to offload memory copies in the network stack and
12 RAID operations in the MD driver.
11 13
12if DMADEVICES 14if DMADEVICES
13 15