On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 08:18:10PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: >On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 10:49:59PM -0400, William Breathitt Gray wrote: >> The PC/104 drivers were changed to utilize the ISA bus driver as part of >> the original patchset which attempted to decouple the X86_32 dependency >> from the ISA Kconfig option; these drivers were updated with the >> intention of building on X86_64 in addition to X86_32. >> >> However, the respective patches were merged without the decoupling >> changes (since decoupling was the wrong approach), resulting in an >> unintentional regression: the PC/104 drivers are now restricted to >> X86_32 due to the ISA Kconfig option dependency, while they were capable >> of building for X86_64 in previous kernel versions. >> >> This patchset should fix this regression by introducing the ISA_BUS_API >> Kconfig option, and the respective Kconfig dependency changes for the >> drivers, in order to allow them to build for both X86_64 and X86_32 as >> originally capable. > >Ah, ok, that makes more sense, thanks. I'll go queue these up now. > >greg k-h Greg K-H, Please also consider picking up the following two patches which fix bugs discovered during the ISA bus driver utilization conversion: 1. https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9046831/ 2. https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9074641/ The second patch in particular fixes a kernel BUG which prevents some drivers that call isa_register_driver from being built-in. This was first reported by Sasha Levin (https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/5/11/719), and the patch was later tested by Ye Xiaolong (https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/5/31/164). Thanks, William Breathitt Gray -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-next" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
