Re: [rfc] Re: [PATCH] Make UIO available for arm architecture

["Hans-Jürgen Koch" <hjk@linutronix.de>]

Am Mittwoch 08 August 2007 18:10 schrieb Greg KH:
> 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 :)

Of course :-)

> 
> But I'm guessing that ARM doesn't use that file yet?  

No, they don't. They source Kconfigs from each drivers subdirectory.

> If so, I have no 
> objection to the above patch, but it should go through the ARM
> developers, not me.

OK, as I've CCed linux-arm-kernel, I hope Russell will do that.

Thanks,
Hans