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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>
hifive-unleashed-5.1
Haavard Skinnemoen 2007-11-28 16:21:43 -08:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent e593f070b4
commit 6d4f5879b6
1 changed files with 5 additions and 3 deletions
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@ -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