From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756713AbZBGD3Z (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Feb 2009 22:29:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753290AbZBGD3O (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Feb 2009 22:29:14 -0500 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:52089 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751661AbZBGD3O (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Feb 2009 22:29:14 -0500 Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2009 19:29:10 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <20090206.192910.42610645.davem@davemloft.net> To: dan.j.williams@intel.com Cc: anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp, maciej.sosnowski@intel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] net_dma: call dmaengine_get only if NET_DMA enabled From: David Miller In-Reply-To: References: <20090206.140912.40800913.davem@davemloft.net> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.1 on Emacs 22.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Dan Williams Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 15:52:35 -0700 > Yes, it has been on the todo list for a while, but I eventually want > the net case to look more like the raid case. I.e. have one code path > that picks async versus sync at runtime, with the option to compile > out async support with header file ifdefs only. And how does any of that get us any closer to a fix right now for this problem that doesn't require an ifdef? Someone please work on this.