Re: [PATCH v4] Kconfig: introduce HAS_IOPORT option and select it as necessary

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On Thu, 2023-03-23 at 17:33 +0100, Niklas Schnelle wrote:
We introduce a new HAS_IOPORT Kconfig option to indicate support for I/O
Port access. In a future patch HAS_IOPORT=n will disable compilation of
the I/O accessor functions inb()/outb() and friends on architectures
which can not meaningfully support legacy I/O spaces such as s390.

The following architectures do not select HAS_IOPORT:

* ARC
* C-SKY
* Hexagon
* Nios II
* OpenRISC
* s390
* User-Mode Linux
* Xtensa

All other architectures select HAS_IOPORT at least conditionally.

The "depends on" relations on HAS_IOPORT in drivers as well as ifdefs
for HAS_IOPORT specific sections will be added in subsequent patches on
a per subsystem basis.

Co-developed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # for ARCH=um
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Niklas Schnelle <schnelle@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Note: This patch is the initial patch of a larger series[0]. This patch
introduces the HAS_IOPORT config option while the rest of the series adds
driver dependencies and the final patch removes inb() / outb() and friends on
platforms that don't support them. 

Thus each of the per-subsystem patches is independent from each other but
depends on this patch while the final patch depends on the whole series. Thus
splitting this initial patch off allows the per-subsytem HAS_IOPORT dependency
addition be merged separately via different trees without breaking the build.

[0] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230314121216.413434-1-schnelle@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/

Changes since v3:
- List archs without HAS_IOPORT in commit message (Arnd)
- Select HAS_IOPORT for LoongArch (Arnd)
- Use "select HAS_IOPORT if (E)ISA || .." instead of a "depends on" for (E)ISA
  for m68k and parisc
- Select HAS_IOPORT with config GSC on parisc (Arnd)
- Drop "depends on HAS_IOPORT" for um's config ISA (Johannes)
- Drop "depends on HAS_IOPORT" for config ISA on x86 and parisc where it is
  always selected (Arnd)


Gentle ping. As far as I can tell this hasn't been picked to any tree
sp far but also hasn't seen complains so I'm wondering if I should send
a new version of the combined series of this patch plus the added
HAS_IOPORT dependencies per subsystem or wait until this is picked up.

Thanks,
Niklas





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