diff --git a/drivers/Kconfig b/drivers/Kconfig
index d2ac339de85fa52a262e372bb483b679601c482b..430f761b0d8d06800138483a442d706dc616e34a 100644
--- a/drivers/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/Kconfig
@@ -114,6 +114,8 @@ source "drivers/rtc/Kconfig"
 
 source "drivers/dma/Kconfig"
 
+source "drivers/dma-buf/Kconfig"
+
 source "drivers/dca/Kconfig"
 
 source "drivers/auxdisplay/Kconfig"
diff --git a/drivers/dma-buf/Kconfig b/drivers/dma-buf/Kconfig
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9824bc4addf856d4b674b47d15058a74fa0f74e7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/drivers/dma-buf/Kconfig
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+menu "DMABUF options"
+
+config SYNC_FILE
+	bool "sync_file support for fences"
+	default n
+	select ANON_INODES
+	select DMA_SHARED_BUFFER
+	---help---
+	  This option enables the fence framework synchronization to export
+	  sync_files to userspace that can represent one or more fences.
+endmenu
diff --git a/drivers/dma-buf/Makefile b/drivers/dma-buf/Makefile
index 57a675f90cd05fa94ecb0e0dc7f1ab05ef7b37e8..4a424eca75edd7f31745b835b30e6710e611bd27 100644
--- a/drivers/dma-buf/Makefile
+++ b/drivers/dma-buf/Makefile
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 obj-y := dma-buf.o fence.o reservation.o seqno-fence.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_SYNC_FILE)		+= sync_file.o
diff --git a/drivers/staging/android/sync_file.c b/drivers/dma-buf/sync_file.c
similarity index 100%
rename from drivers/staging/android/sync_file.c
rename to drivers/dma-buf/sync_file.c
diff --git a/drivers/staging/android/Kconfig b/drivers/staging/android/Kconfig
index 68042ab2eba0c88b804ed8f0c1af916c3564a7ff..6480f60ebf6c4a4d2be86ee798d6b304f4b8ceea 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/android/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/staging/android/Kconfig
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ config SW_SYNC
 	bool "Software synchronization objects"
 	default n
 	depends on SYNC
+	depends on SYNC_FILE
 	---help---
 	  A sync object driver that uses a 32bit counter to coordinate
 	  synchronization.  Useful when there is no hardware primitive backing
diff --git a/drivers/staging/android/Makefile b/drivers/staging/android/Makefile
index ebc2df1b14fdee5d29cea3515e2d8b647d2c5b44..980d6dc4b26558614fcb2de03f948eb34641ed49 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/android/Makefile
+++ b/drivers/staging/android/Makefile
@@ -4,5 +4,5 @@ obj-y					+= ion/
 
 obj-$(CONFIG_ASHMEM)			+= ashmem.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_ANDROID_LOW_MEMORY_KILLER)	+= lowmemorykiller.o
-obj-$(CONFIG_SYNC)			+= sync_file.o sync.o sync_debug.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_SYNC)			+= sync.o sync_debug.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_SW_SYNC)			+= sw_sync.o