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SubjectRe: [PATCH] (11/43) Kconfig fix (infiniband and PCI)
On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 09:22:27AM -0700, Roland Dreier wrote:
> Al> infiniband uses PCI helpers all over the place (including the
> Al> core parts) and won't build without PCI.
>
> I don't think this is the right fix. The only PCI helpers used in
> code that is enabled with CONFIG_PCI=n are pci_unmap_addr_set() and
> pci_unmap_addr(). And they're only used because no one has added
> dma_unmap_addr_set() and dma_unmap_addr() -- the core code is properly
> using the general dma_xxx API wherever possible.
>
> There actually is non-PCI InfiniBand hardware coming, so we'll have to
> fix this properly at some point.

I'm all for it and removing BROKEN from Kconfig when fixes happen is
obviously not a problem at all ;-)
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