linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] base: isa: Remove X86

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Message-ID: <20160222193150.GA14925@kroah.com>
Date:	Mon, 22 Feb 2016 11:31:50 -0800
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:	William Breathitt Gray <vilhelm.gray@...il.com>, mingo@...hat.com,
	hpa@...or.com, x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] base: isa: Remove X86_32 dependency

On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 07:39:36PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Feb 2016, William Breathitt Gray wrote:
> 
> > On 01/27/2016 05:07 AM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > > On Fri, 22 Jan 2016, William Breathitt Gray wrote:
> > >> Many motherboards utilize a LPC to ISA bridge in order to decode
> > >> ISA-style port-mapped I/O addresses. This is particularly true for
> > >> embedded motherboards supporting the PC/104 bus (a bus specification
> > >> derived from ISA).
> > >>
> > >> These motherboards are now commonly running 64-bit x86 processors. The
> > >> X86_32 dependency should be removed from the ISA bus configuration
> > >> option in order to support these newer motherboards.
> > >>
> > >> A new config option, CONFIG_ISA_BUS, is introduced to allow for the
> > >> compilation of the ISA bus driver independent of the CONFIG_ISA option.
> > >> Devices which communicate via ISA-compatible buses can now be supported
> > >> independent of the dependencies of the CONFIG_ISA option.
> > >>
> > >> Signed-off-by: William Breathitt Gray <vilhelm.gray@...il.com>
> > > 
> > > Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
> > 
> > What more can I do to help get this patch pulled in for the merge
> > window?
> 
> If Greg doesn't pick it up, I'll pull it into x86 later this week

It's not in my queue so I don't even have it here to pick up :(