linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 04/10] iio: stx104: Change STX104 dependency to ISA

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Date:	Fri, 8 Apr 2016 08:31:58 -0400
From:	William Breathitt Gray <vilhelm.gray@...il.com>
To:	Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
Cc:	gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, tglx@...utronix.de, jic23@...nel.org,
	knaack.h@....de, lars@...afoo.de, pmeerw@...erw.net, wim@...ana.be,
	linus.walleij@...aro.org, gnurou@...il.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-iio@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-watchdog@...r.kernel.org, linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/10] iio: stx104: Change STX104 dependency to ISA_BUS

On Thu, Apr 07, 2016 at 05:45:03PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>This means for this and other similar drivers that the driver is no longer
>supported on architectures which support ISA but not the newly introduced
>ISA_BUS. Affected architectures are alpha, arm, m32r, m68k, mips, powerpc,
>and parisc.
>
>A typical example is SCSI_AHA1542, which is no longer supported on those
>architectures. It builds, but isa_register_driver() will be a dummy and fail.
>Actually, this is true for _all_ drivers calling isa_register_driver().
>
>I hope this is understood and doesn't cause any problems.
>
>Thanks,
>Guenter

That's a good catch. I overlooked this when I submitted the ISA_BUS
patch; I had improperly assumed the ISA option to have a dependency on
X86_32 based on arch/x86/Kconfig. The intention of the ISA_BUS is to
allow the proper definition of the isa_register_driver and
isa_unregister_driver functions without the dependency on X86_32 (e.g.
on X86_64 systems). How can this be resolved without ending support for
ISA on these other architectures? Would it be appropriate to add the
ISA_BUS dependency to every "config ISA" block for the other
architectures?

My avoidance of making ISA a selection of ISA_BUS is the possibility of
an invalid configuration: a user may initially enable ISA_BUS, then
later disable ISA, resulting in ISA_BUS remaining enabled without ISA
selected.

As a side note, should the dummy isa_register_driver return 0? Would it
be more appropriate for it to return an error code to indicate lack of
support for ISA, rather than silently fail?

William Breathitt Gray