Re: [PATCH-RFC 1/2] tile: don't panic on iomap

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On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 02:04:41PM +0000, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Wednesday 30 November 2011, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > > > Presumably whoever wrote that architecture considered and discarded setting GENERIC_IOMAP.
> > > 
> > > The tile PCI controller is apparently special in that it does not map the
> > > PIO region into MMIO space, or make it available in any other way, so generic
> > > iomap with IOCOND is pointless. Setting NO_IPORT will still mean that drivers
> > > using ioport_map will not be built. This mostly impacts the legacy (non-AHCI)
> > > ATA controllers, which I assume are not used on tile anyway.
> > 
> > I don't object to setting NO_IPORT at all, but this won't help address
> > the problem this patch is fixing, which is to use a generic pci_iomap
> > on tile.
> 
> Ah, right. I didn't realize that the generic pci_iomap still attempts
> to call ioport_map(). It would probably make sense to enclose
> the ioport_map() call in pci_iomap() inside of #ifdef CONFIG_HAS_IOPORT.
> It's not exactly beautiful, but probably the most correct solution
> so that we can make any call to ioport_map() a build-time error on
> architectures that set CONFIG_NO_IOPORT.
> 
> 	Arnd

I'm not sure why do you want to do that.

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