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From: Dragos Tatulea <dtatulea@ixiacom.com>
To: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Octavian Purdila <opurdila@ixiacom.com>
Subject: Re: DMA_ENGINE: can't use it without selecting a dma engine driver
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:12:04 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090617181204.52981f5f@dragos-tp.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e9c3a7c20906162340o141d04e6n36b5b7b4a2513270@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

> >
> >        Just discovered that it's impossible to select the dma engine
> > without compiling a dma engine driver from the kernel. What if I want to
> > use a different dma engine?
> >
> 
> Create a Kconfig entry for your driver in drivers/dma/Kconfig and have
> it "select DMA_ENGINE".
That's what I want to avoid. The dma engine driver is out of tree.

What is the rationale behind this? It seems (to me) impossible to have all
such drivers in upstream.

Thanks,
Dragos

  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-17 15:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-16 21:53 Dragos Tatulea
2009-06-17  6:40 ` Dan Williams
2009-06-17 15:12   ` Dragos Tatulea [this message]
2009-06-17 16:38     ` Dan Williams

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