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authorHaavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>2007-11-28 16:21:43 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-11-29 09:24:53 -0800
commit6d4f5879b6f4da50bde94e1cae73755978ed048f (patch)
tree149340866e3a7d65fca49763ce7caa56ada370c4 /drivers
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')
-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 @@
#
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