netdev - Re: [RFC 01/32] Kconfig: introduce and depend on LEGACY

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Date:   Fri, 7 Jan 2022 17:16:23 +0000
From:   John Garry <john.garry@...wei.com>
To:     Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@...nel.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC 01/32] Kconfig: introduce and depend on LEGACY_PCI

On 06/01/2022 18:14, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
>> That driver would prob not be used on systems which does not support PIO,
>> and so could have a HAS_IOPORT dependency. But it is not strictly necessary.
> I don't want the path of "this driver isn't needed because the device
> is unlikely to be used on this arch."

Sure, that was just a one off example. As I mentioned before, I think 
that Arnd already did most of the ifdeffery work, but it was not 
included in this series.

> 
> Maybe it's not_always_  possible, but if the device can be plugged
> into the platform, I think we should be able to build the driver for
> it.
> 
> If the device requires I/O port space and the platform doesn't support
> it, the PCI core or the driver should detect that and give a useful
> diagnostic.
> 

I'm not sure what the driver can say apart from -ENODEV. Or IO port 
management in resource.c could warn for requesting IO port region when 
it's unsupported.

Anyway, this same conversion was had with Linus before I got involved. 
If you think it is worth discussing again then I suppose the authors 
here need to gain consensus.

Thanks,
John