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Date:   Fri, 28 Apr 2023 15:27:56 +0200
From:   Niklas Schnelle <schnelle@...ux.ibm.com>
To:     William Breathitt Gray <william.gray@...aro.org>
Cc:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        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@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-pci@...r.kernel.org, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...nel.org>,
        linux-iio@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 05/38] counter: add HAS_IOPORT dependencies

On Tue, 2023-03-14 at 08:41 -0400, William Breathitt Gray wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 14, 2023 at 01:11:43PM +0100, 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.
> > 
> > Co-developed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...nel.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Niklas Schnelle <schnelle@...ux.ibm.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/counter/Kconfig | 1 +
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/counter/Kconfig b/drivers/counter/Kconfig
> > index b5ba8fb02cf7..1cae5097217e 100644
> > --- a/drivers/counter/Kconfig
> > +++ b/drivers/counter/Kconfig
> > @@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ if COUNTER
> >  config 104_QUAD_8
> >  	tristate "ACCES 104-QUAD-8 driver"
> >  	depends on (PC104 && X86) || COMPILE_TEST
> > +	depends on HAS_IOPORT
> >  	select ISA_BUS_API
> >  	help
> >  	  Say yes here to build support for the ACCES 104-QUAD-8 quadrature
> > -- 
> > 2.37.2
> 
> Is HAS_IOPORT needed because this driver uses devm_ioport_map()? The
> inb()/outb() functions and such are not used in this driver, so would it
> suffice to depend on HAS_IOPORT_MAP instead?
> 
> William Breathitt Gray

Yes, good catch HAS_IOPORT_MAP indeed seems to be enough. Will be
changed in v4. Thankfully the Kconfig change to add HAS_IOPORT has
already landed in Linus' tree so for the future these per subsystem
patches can be merged independently.

Thanks,
Niklas