Re: [PATCH] auxdisplay: img-ascii-lcd: Only build on archs that have IOMEM

From: Thomas Meyer
Date: Mon Nov 27 2017 - 15:27:32 EST


On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 11:24:04AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On 08/10/2017 01:53 AM, Thomas Meyer wrote:
> > This avoids the MODPOST error:
> > ERROR: "devm_ioremap_resource" [drivers/auxdisplay/img-ascii-lcd.ko] undefined!
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Thomas Meyer <thomas@xxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > drivers/auxdisplay/Kconfig | 1 +
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/auxdisplay/Kconfig b/drivers/auxdisplay/Kconfig
> > index 9ae6681c90ad..9088c66e4c08 100644
> > --- a/drivers/auxdisplay/Kconfig
> > +++ b/drivers/auxdisplay/Kconfig
> > @@ -135,6 +135,7 @@ config CFAG12864B_RATE
> >
> > config IMG_ASCII_LCD
> > tristate "Imagination Technologies ASCII LCD Display"
> > + depends on HAS_IOMEM
> > default y if MIPS_MALTA || MIPS_SEAD3
> > select SYSCON
> > help
> >
>
> I posted the same patch on 2017-JAN-01, so I agree with it.
>
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/1/1/87
>
> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

No response from the maintainer yet. I think this driver is actually unmaintained.
What to do now?

>
> --
> ~Randy