linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5/6] sparc32: Do not select GENERIC_ISA

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Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2024 18:14:43 +0100
From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@...am.me.uk>,
	Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com>,
	sparclinux@...r.kernel.org, linux-parport@...ts.infradead.org,
	"David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Andreas Larsson <andreas@...sler.com>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] sparc32: Do not select GENERIC_ISA_DMA

Hi Arnd,

On Sat, Feb 24, 2024 at 12:24:01PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 24, 2024, at 06:29, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> > On Sat, 24 Feb 2024, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> >
> > The GENERIC_ISA_DMA option itself was added to arch/sparc/config.in with 
> > 2.5.31 as:
> >
> > define_bool CONFIG_GENERIC_ISA_DMA y
> >
> > despite of:
> >
> > define_bool CONFIG_ISA n
> 
> I think I've seen any combination of CONFIG_ISA (the 62/98 pin slots), CONFIG_GENERIC_ISA_DMA (the request_dma() interface) and
> CONFIG_ISA_DMA_API (the set_dma_addr()/enable_dma() type interface),
> but I agree that sparc should have none of the three as both
> floppy and parport use some other interface.
> 
> > for a reason not clear to me (BLK_DEV_FD? -- but on SPARC that uses some 
> > hacks to work in the absence of ISA DMA anyway).
> >
> >  Am I missing anything here?
> 
> I think it was part of the ISA DMA lookalike that got removed
> in 334ae614772b ("sparc: Kill SBUS DVMA layer.") and should
> have been changed back then.

Hmm, that may well be the case.

I checked and sparc32 do not set any ISA symbols anymore
so we should be OK now.

I decided to just drop the Fixes: tag to not confuse anyone.

	Sam