linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] asm-generic updates for 6.4

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Date:   Tue, 25 Apr 2023 12:27:21 -0700
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:     Linux-Arch <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Niklas Schnelle <schnelle@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...belt.com>,
        Thomas Huth <thuth@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] asm-generic updates for 6.4

On Mon, Apr 24, 2023 at 2:16 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de> wrote:
>
> These are various cleanups, fixing a number of uapi header files to no
> longer reference CONFIG_* symbols, and one patch that introduces the
> new CONFIG_HAS_IOPORT symbol for architectures that provide working
> inb()/outb() macros

Strange. I was sure we had this, but you're right, we only had HAS_IOMEM.

And then we had that HAS_IOPORT_MAP which was kind of related.

Anyway, the new HAS_IOPORT looks like something we should always had
had, I have no complaints, I was just expressing surprise that it
wasn't already there ;)

          Linus