"Charles M. Hannum" writes:
> > > I agree with you! However, wouldn't it be possible to to have a
> > > config option to enable DMA anyways? This would be turned off
> ...
> >
> > This is really easy, should be a 3 lines thing (including the ifdef/endif .
..
> > well, 4 if it's defopt'ed :). I'll add it tonigth or tomorow morning.
> 
> *THIS SHOULD NOT BE AN #IFDEF.*
> 
> It should be a flag (as in `pciide* at ... flags 1').

Pardon, but why is a flag better than a kernel option in this case?
Having it be a flag seems somewhat counterintuitive to me so I'm
interested in your reasoning.

Perry