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