linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/5] hwmon/lm78: Drop REALLY_SLOW

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Message-ID: <03303b17-c133-410e-b442-1ab6d82372bd@roeck-us.net>
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2025 09:04:24 -0800
From: Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
To: Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-hwmon@...r.kernel.org,
	Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] hwmon/lm78: Drop REALLY_SLOW_IO setting

On Wed, Nov 26, 2025 at 05:20:15PM +0100, Juergen Gross wrote:
> In lm78_isa_found() there is REALLY_SLOW_IO defined around some port
> accesses, probably in order to wait between multiple accesses.
> 
> Unfortunately this isn't making any difference compared to not having
> this define since more than a decade, as REALLY_SLOW_IO needs to be
> defined while "#include <asm/io.h>" is called to have an effect.
> 
> As there seem not to be any outstanding issues in spite of this having
> no effect, just drop the "#define" and add a remark to the related
> comment.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>

Applied.

Thanks,
Guenter