Re: [patch] x86: allow ZONE_DMA to be configurable

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 10/14/2010 09:00 AM, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> On 10/13/2010 09:46 PM, David Rientjes wrote:
>>> I'm not running a CONFIG_EMBEDDED kernel and I'm pretty sure Casey isn't
>>> either, so we'd still need to carry our own patches to change the Kconfig
>>> bool line anyway.
>>>
>>> I'm suprised that we can't allow users who definitively know that they
>>> have no hardware limitations the ability to disable ZONE_DMA.  Would a
>>> strong caution in the Kconfig "help" text suffice or will you not be
>>> convinced?
> 
> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 6:38 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> CONFIG_EMBEDDED *is* "I am a user who (think I) know what I'm doing".
>> That is *what it is* and *all it is*.
> 
> Yup. The naming is quite unfortunate, though. Can we change it to
> something else?
> 

Funny, this seems to come up repeatedly ;)

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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