linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] parport_pc: Also enable driver for PCI systems

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Date:   Wed, 2 Mar 2022 20:44:56 +0000
From:   Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>
To:     "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@...am.me.uk>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>, Guo Ren <guoren@...nel.org>,
        Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@...ive.com>,
        Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...belt.com>,
        Albert Ou <aou@...s.berkeley.edu>,
        Heiko Carstens <hca@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Vasily Gorbik <gor@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Sven Schnelle <svens@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Jeff Dike <jdike@...toit.com>,
        Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
        Anton Ivanov <anton.ivanov@...bridgegreys.com>,
        Chris Zankel <chris@...kel.net>,
        Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@...il.com>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-csky@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org, linux-s390@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-um@...ts.infradead.org, linux-xtensa@...ux-xtensa.org,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] parport_pc: Also enable driver for PCI systems

On Mon, Feb 14, 2022 at 8:16 PM Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@...am.me.uk> wrote:
>
> Nowadays PC-style parallel ports come in the form of PCI and PCIe option
> cards and there are some combined parallel/serial option cards as well
> that we handle in the parport subsystem.  There is nothing in particular
> that would prevent them from being used in any system equipped with PCI
> or PCIe connectivity, except that we do not permit the PARPORT_PC config
> option to be selected for platforms for which ARCH_MIGHT_HAVE_PC_PARPORT
> has not been set for.
>
> The only PCI platforms that actually can't make use of PC-style parallel
> port hardware are those newer PCIe systems that have no support for I/O
> cycles in the host bridge, required by such parallel ports.  Notably,
> this includes the s390 arch, which has port I/O accessors that cause
> compilation warnings (promoted to errors with `-Werror'), and there are
> other cases such as the POWER9 PHB4 device, though this one has variable
> port I/O accessors that depend on the particular system.  Also it is not
> clear whether the serial port side of devices enabled by PARPORT_SERIAL
> uses port I/O or MMIO.  Finally Super I/O solutions are always either
> ISA or platform devices.
>
> Make the PARPORT_PC option selectable also for PCI systems then, except
> for the s390 arch, however limit the availability of PARPORT_PC_SUPERIO
> to platforms that enable ARCH_MIGHT_HAVE_PC_PARPORT.  Update platforms
> accordingly for the required <asm/parport.h> header.
>
> Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@...am.me.uk>

Acked-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>

Usually parport patches goes via Greg's tree. Adding Greg.

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Regards
Sudip