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Subject: Re: DMA_ENGINE: can't use it without selecting a dma engine driver
From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
To: Dragos Tatulea <dtatulea@ixiacom.com>
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On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Dragos Tatulea<dtatulea@ixiacom.com> wrote:
> 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".