Commit 6d4f5879 authored by Haavard Skinnemoen's avatar Haavard Skinnemoen Committed by Linus Torvalds

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: default avatarHaavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent e593f070
...@@ -3,11 +3,13 @@ ...@@ -3,11 +3,13 @@
# #
menuconfig DMADEVICES menuconfig DMADEVICES
bool "DMA Offload Engine support" bool "DMA Engine support"
depends on (PCI && X86) || ARCH_IOP32X || ARCH_IOP33X || ARCH_IOP13XX depends on (PCI && X86) || ARCH_IOP32X || ARCH_IOP33X || ARCH_IOP13XX
help help
Intel(R) offload engines enable offloading memory copies in the DMA engines can do asynchronous data transfers without
network stack and RAID operations in the MD driver. 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 if DMADEVICES
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