This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled char: Drop bogus dependency of DEVPORT on !M68K to the 3.18-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: char-drop-bogus-dependency-of-devport-on-m68k.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 309124e2648d668a0c23539c5078815660a4a850 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2016 10:40:55 +0200 Subject: char: Drop bogus dependency of DEVPORT on !M68K From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 309124e2648d668a0c23539c5078815660a4a850 upstream. According to full-history-linux commit d3794f4fa7c3edc3 ("[PATCH] M68k update (part 25)"), port operations are allowed on m68k if CONFIG_ISA is defined. However, commit 153dcc54df826d2f ("[PATCH] mem driver: fix conditional on isa i/o support") accidentally changed an "||" into an "&&", disabling it completely on m68k. This logic was retained when introducing the DEVPORT symbol in commit 4f911d64e04a44c4 ("Make /dev/port conditional on config symbol"). Drop the bogus dependency on !M68K to fix this. Fixes: 153dcc54df826d2f ("[PATCH] mem driver: fix conditional on isa i/o support") Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Al Stone <ahs3@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/char/Kconfig | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/char/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/char/Kconfig @@ -575,7 +575,6 @@ config TELCLOCK config DEVPORT bool - depends on !M68K depends on ISA || PCI default y Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.18/char-drop-bogus-dependency-of-devport-on-m68k.patch