Re: [PATCH 2/9] [I/OAT] Driver for the Intel(R) I/OAT DMA engine

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On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 05:20:13PM -0700, Chris Leech wrote:
> Adds a new ioatdma driver
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chris Leech <[email protected]>
> ---
> 
>  drivers/dma/Kconfig             |    9 
>  drivers/dma/Makefile            |    1 
>  drivers/dma/ioatdma.c           |  839 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/dma/ioatdma.h           |  126 ++++++
>  drivers/dma/ioatdma_hw.h        |   52 ++
>  drivers/dma/ioatdma_io.h        |  118 +++++
>  drivers/dma/ioatdma_registers.h |  126 ++++++
>  7 files changed, 1271 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/dma/Kconfig b/drivers/dma/Kconfig
> index f9ac4bc..0f15e76 100644
> --- a/drivers/dma/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/dma/Kconfig
> @@ -10,4 +10,13 @@ config DMA_ENGINE
>  	  DMA engines offload copy operations from the CPU to dedicated
>  	  hardware, allowing the copies to happen asynchronously.
>  
> +comment "DMA Devices"
> +
> +config INTEL_IOATDMA
> +	tristate "Intel I/OAT DMA support"
> +	depends on DMA_ENGINE && PCI
> +	default m
> +	---help---
> +	  Enable support for the Intel(R) I/OAT DMA engine.
> +
>  endmenu
>...

- please don't use "default m"
- can you enhance the help text?
  e.g. you could list which hardware contains this DMA engine

cu
Adrian

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