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

[Thomas Gleixner]

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

Thanks,

	tglx