linux-kernel - Re: uninline check

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707171052470.10600@anakin>
Date:	Tue, 17 Jul 2007 10:53:32 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	zippel@...ux-m68k.org, jdike@...aya.com, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: uninline check_signature()

On Tue, 17 Jul 2007, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Jul 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > On Mon, 16 Jul 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > No, no revert, please.  If the architecture doesn't support readb() then we
> > > need some reliable way of working that out within Kconfig.
> > 
> > Isn't that CONFIG_HAS_IOMEM?
> 
> No, having memory mapped I/O doesn't mean you have PCI.
> How to access memory mapped I/O depends on the bus behind the device.

Like I said before:

| Just make check_signature() depend on ISA || PCI (and maybe || X86_32).

It's used by only a handful of legacy drivers.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

--
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