Re: [PATCH v2] base: isa: Remove X86_32 dependency

From: Greg KH
Date: Mon Feb 22 2016 - 14:32:52 EST


On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 07:39:36PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Feb 2016, William Breathitt Gray wrote:
>
> > On 01/27/2016 05:07 AM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > > On Fri, 22 Jan 2016, William Breathitt Gray wrote:
> > >> Many motherboards utilize a LPC to ISA bridge in order to decode
> > >> ISA-style port-mapped I/O addresses. This is particularly true for
> > >> embedded motherboards supporting the PC/104 bus (a bus specification
> > >> derived from ISA).
> > >>
> > >> These motherboards are now commonly running 64-bit x86 processors. The
> > >> X86_32 dependency should be removed from the ISA bus configuration
> > >> option in order to support these newer motherboards.
> > >>
> > >> A new config option, CONFIG_ISA_BUS, is introduced to allow for the
> > >> compilation of the ISA bus driver independent of the CONFIG_ISA option.
> > >> Devices which communicate via ISA-compatible buses can now be supported
> > >> independent of the dependencies of the CONFIG_ISA option.
> > >>
> > >> Signed-off-by: William Breathitt Gray <vilhelm.gray@xxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > What more can I do to help get this patch pulled in for the merge
> > window?
>
> If Greg doesn't pick it up, I'll pull it into x86 later this week

It's not in my queue so I don't even have it here to pick up :(