From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S936205AbXHHQ1O (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Aug 2007 12:27:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S936263AbXHHQZ7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Aug 2007 12:25:59 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:60048 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S936212AbXHHQZ6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Aug 2007 12:25:58 -0400 Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 09:10:02 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Jan Engelhardt Cc: Hans-J?rgen Koch , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Thomas Gleixner , linux-arm-kernel@lists.arm.linux.org.uk Subject: Re: [rfc] Re: [PATCH] Make UIO available for arm architecture Message-ID: <20070808161002.GA11153@suse.de> References: <200708081808.13889.hjk@linutronix.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15 (2007-04-06) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 06:15:21PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > On Aug 8 2007 18:08, Hans-J??rgen Koch wrote: > >--- > >Index: linux-2.6.23-rc/arch/arm/Kconfig > >=================================================================== > >--- linux-2.6.23-rc.orig/arch/arm/Kconfig 2007-08-08 17:52:02.000000000 +0200 > >+++ linux-2.6.23-rc/arch/arm/Kconfig 2007-08-08 17:53:29.000000000 +0200 > >@@ -1052,6 +1052,8 @@ > > > > source "drivers/dma/Kconfig" > > > >+source "drivers/uio/Kconfig" > >+ > > endmenu > > > > source "fs/Kconfig" > > I am raising a general question here. > Should not such cross-platform things be made available in a general > Kconfig rather than having to patch each arch's Kconfig? > > I am thinking of drivers/Kconfig for this one (of course I am aware that this > requires an extra "depends on X86 || SPARC || others" in drivers/pci/Kconfig), > and perhaps even a top-level Kconfig for things like truly arch-independent > fs/Kconfig. Um, uio _is_ in drivers/Kconfig already :) But I'm guessing that ARM doesn't use that file yet? If so, I have no objection to the above patch, but it should go through the ARM developers, not me. thanks, greg k-h