Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 8 Aug 2007 09:10:02 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [rfc] Re: [PATCH] Make UIO available for arm architecture |
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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,
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