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-rw-r--r--drivers/dma/Kconfig8
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/dma/Kconfig b/drivers/dma/Kconfig
index 6a7d25fc2470..c46b7c219ee9 100644
--- a/drivers/dma/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/dma/Kconfig
@@ -3,11 +3,13 @@
#
menuconfig DMADEVICES
- bool "DMA Offload Engine support"
+ bool "DMA Engine support"
depends on (PCI && X86) || ARCH_IOP32X || ARCH_IOP33X || ARCH_IOP13XX
help
- Intel(R) offload engines enable offloading memory copies in the
- network stack and RAID operations in the MD driver.
+ DMA engines can do asynchronous data transfers without
+ involving the host CPU. Currently, this framework can be
+ used to offload memory copies in the network stack and
+ RAID operations in the MD driver.
if DMADEVICES