From 6d4f5879b6f4da50bde94e1cae73755978ed048f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Haavard Skinnemoen Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:21:43 -0800 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: David Brownell Signed-off-by: Dan Williams Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- drivers/dma/Kconfig | 8 +++++--- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'drivers/dma') diff --git a/drivers/dma/Kconfig b/drivers/dma/Kconfig index 6a7d25fc2470..c46b7c219ee9 100644 --- a/drivers/dma/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/dma/Kconfig @@ -3,11 +3,13 @@ # menuconfig DMADEVICES - bool "DMA Offload Engine support" + bool "DMA Engine support" depends on (PCI && X86) || ARCH_IOP32X || ARCH_IOP33X || ARCH_IOP13XX help - Intel(R) offload engines enable offloading memory copies in the - network stack and RAID operations in the MD driver. + DMA engines can do asynchronous data transfers without + involving the host CPU. Currently, this framework can be + used to offload memory copies in the network stack and + RAID operations in the MD driver. if DMADEVICES -- cgit v1.2.2