linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] Driver core update for 4.7-rc1

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Date:	Fri, 20 May 2016 21:51:18 -0700
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	William Breathitt Gray <vilhelm.gray@...il.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Driver core update for 4.7-rc1

On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 8:23 PM, Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> William Breathitt Gray (13):
>       base: isa: Remove X86_32 dependency
>       isa: Decouple X86_32 dependency from the ISA Kconfig option

So I'm going to revert these unless I get

 (a) a good reason for them

 (b) patches to get rid of the incessant warnings these cause.

Most of the ISA drivers are not 64-bit safe. They give compiler
warnings, and they will definitely simply not work. So just blindly
enabling that shit is not the answer.

We've never needed this before, why do we need it now?

                Linus