Re: [RFC 01/32] Kconfig: introduce and depend on LEGACY_PCI

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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



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