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Message-ID: <CAMuHMdXBgh8NTBmZkqoR+ZZM=C=bREVM1KCk4xNC-4BWjSAHOw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 4 Jul 2023 10:09:49 +0200
From:   Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:     Niklas Schnelle <schnelle@...ux.ibm.com>
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>,
        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-m68k <linux-m68k@...ts.linux-m68k.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 03/44] char: add HAS_IOPORT dependencies

Hi Niklas,

On Mon, May 22, 2023 at 12:51 PM Niklas Schnelle <schnelle@...ux.ibm.com> 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: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...nel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Niklas Schnelle <schnelle@...ux.ibm.com>

Thanks for your patch, which is now commit 1fbb0b203574bb16 ("char:
add HAS_IOPORT dependencies") upstream.

> --- a/drivers/char/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/char/Kconfig

> @@ -340,7 +341,7 @@ config NVRAM
>
>  config DEVPORT
>         bool "/dev/port character device"
> -       depends on ISA || PCI
> +       depends on HAS_IOPORT
>         default y
>         help
>           Say Y here if you want to support the /dev/port device. The /dev/port

FTR, this change makes DEVPORT show up on Atari with ATARI_ROM_ISA=y.
I guess it doesn't matter much, though.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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