linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 15/38] leds: add HAS

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Date:   Thu, 23 Mar 2023 14:32:30 +0100
From:   "Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@...db.de>
To:     "Niklas Schnelle" <schnelle@...ux.ibm.com>,
        "Lee Jones" <lee@...nel.org>
Cc:     "Pavel Machek" <pavel@....cz>,
        "Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        "Bjorn Helgaas" <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
        Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>,
        "Mauro Carvalho Chehab" <mchehab@...nel.org>,
        "Alan Stern" <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
        "Rafael J . Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
        "Geert Uytterhoeven" <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
        "Paul Walmsley" <paul.walmsley@...ive.com>,
        "Palmer Dabbelt" <palmer@...belt.com>,
        "Albert Ou" <aou@...s.berkeley.edu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Linux-Arch <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-pci@...r.kernel.org, "Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@...nel.org>,
        linux-leds@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 15/38] leds: add HAS_IOPORT dependencies

On Thu, Mar 23, 2023, at 13:42, Niklas Schnelle wrote:
> On Thu, 2023-03-16 at 16:14 +0000, Lee Jones wrote:
>> On Tue, 14 Mar 2023, Niklas Schnelle wrote:
>> 
>> > In a future patch HAS_IOPORT=n will result in inb()/outb() and friends
>> > not being declared. We thus need to add HAS_IOPORT as dependency for
>> > those drivers using them.
>> > 
>> > Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
>> > Co-developed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...nel.org>
>> > Signed-off-by: Niklas Schnelle <schnelle@...ux.ibm.com>
>> > ---
>> >  drivers/leds/Kconfig | 2 +-
>> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>> 
>> Applied, thanks
>
> Sorry should have maybe been more clear, without patch 1 of this series
> this won't work as the HAS_IOPORT config option is new and will be
> missing otherwise. There's currently two options of merging this,
> either all at once or first only patch 1 and then the additional
> patches per subsystem until finally the last patch can remove
> inb()/outb() and friends when HAS_IOPORT is unset.

It's probably too late now to squeeze patch 1 into linux-6.3
as a late preparation patch for the rest of the series in 6.4.

It would be good if you could respin that patch separately
anyway, so I can add it to the asm-generic tree and make
sure we get it ready for the next merge window.

     Arnd