On Tue, Aug 1, 2023, at 21:21, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>> I think ideally all the I/O port stuff in arch/sh/ could just be
>> removed after the conversion to asm-generic/io.h, but the
>> microdev_ioport_map() function oddity gets in the way of that,
>> unless someone wants to clean up that platform. As far as I
>> can tell, the ethernet, display, USB and PCI devices on it already
>> broke at some point (afbb9d8d5266b, 46bc85872040a), so it might
>> be easier to remove it entirely.
>
> I don't have this particular hardware, so I cannot comment on this.
Sure, as I explained, I'm pretty sure that nobody has
tried to boot this hardware in a long time, so I did not
expect you to have one.
I'll try to follow up with a patch to remove the platform
later on, based on the explations above.
>> Having the series go into linux-next sounds appropriate like this,
>> the entire purpose of that is to find such bugs and Andrew can jus
>> fold the fixup into the broken patch.
>>
>> Let me know if you prefer the simple version with the extra
>> #defines or if we should just use the generic inb/outb implementation
>> immediately and drop microdev in a separate patch.
>
> Please go ahead with the simple version.
Done,
Arnd
