Re: [GIT PULL 1/2] asm-generic: rework PCI I/O space access

[John Garry]

On 17/12/2021 15:55, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > > If you have a better way of finding the affected drivers,
> >   > that would be great.
> >
> > Assuming arm64 should select HAS_IOPORT, I am talking about f71805f as
> > an example. According to that patch, this driver additionally depends on
> > HAS_IOPORT; however I would rather arm64, like powerpc, should not allow
> > that driver to be built at all.
> Agreed, I missed these when I looked through the HAS_IOPORT users,
> that's why I suggested to split up that part of the patch per subsystem
> so they can be inspected more carefully.

ok

>
> My feeling is that in this case we want some other dependency, e.g. a
> new CONFIG_LPC. It should actually be possible to use this driver on
> any machine with an LPC bus, which would by definition be the primary
> I/O space, so it should be possible to load it on Arm64.

You did suggest HARDCODED_IOPORT earlier in this thread, and the 
definition/premise there seemed sensible to me.

Anyway it seems practical to make all these changes in a single series, 
so need a way forward as Niklas has no such changes for this additional 
kconfig option.

As a start, may I suggest we at least have Niklas' patch committed to a 
dev branch based on -next or latest mainline release for further analysis?

Thanks,
John