Re: [RFC 1/8] Add CONFIG_ZONE_DMA to all archesM

On Mon, 10 Jul 2006 08:56:50 -0700 (PDT)
Christoph Lameter <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, 10 Jul 2006, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
> 
> > 
> > How about configuring this by
> > 
> > config ZONE_DMA
> > 	def_bool y
> > 	depends on GENERIC_ISA_DMA || ARCH_ZONE_DMA
> > 
> > and set ARCH_ZONE_DMA for each arch ?
> 
> Yes we do something like that in a later patch. What would be the 
> advantage of having CONFIG_ARCH_ZONE_DMA instead of CONFIG_ZONE_DMA?
> 
I think it's a bit complicated that both (generic)mm/Kconfig and arch/???/Kconfg
has the same config option. I think there are 2 ways..

1. remove CONFIG_ZONE_DMA from mm/Kconfig and move all to under arch/
2. define ARCH_ZONE_DMA under /arch and unite them in mm/Kconfig by
   CONFIG_ZONE_DMA


-Kame

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