linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kconfig: Remove last trace of GENERIC

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Date:   Wed, 7 Feb 2018 11:15:02 -0600
From:   Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>
To:     Robin Murphy <Robin.Murphy@....com>
Cc:     "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kconfig: Remove last trace of GENERIC_IO

On Feb 6, 2018 8:14 AM, "Robin Murphy" <robin.murphy@....com> wrote:
>
> On 06/02/18 16:06, Rob Herring wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 7:11 AM, Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Since commit 9de8da47742b ("kconfig: kill off GENERIC_IO option"), this
>>> select has done nothing, and is now just confusing. Clean it up.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>
>>> ---
>>>   lib/Kconfig | 1 -
>>>   1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>>
>>
>> We already have:
>>
>> https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/1/17/924
>>
>> and this series:
>>
>> https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/2/4/208
>
>
> Agh, Ulf's patch is even sat in my inbox...
>
> This was just a drive-by from looking into HAS_IOMEM, sorry for the noise :)

What are you looking into there? IMO, we should get rid of HAS_IOMEM.
It's basically a !UML option to turn off a bunch of drivers in UML.

Rob