[PATCH 00/10] Use the ISA bus driver for PC/104 and ISA devices

[William Breathitt Gray]

This patchset is based on top of commit 3a3a5fece6f2 ("fs: kernfs: Replace
CURRENT_TIME by current_fs_time()") of the driver-core-next branch of the
driver-core repository.

Two new ISA bus driver macros are introduced in this patchset:
module_isa_driver and max_num_isa_dev.

The module_isa_driver macro is a helper macro for ISA drivers which do not
do anything special in module init/exit. This macro is modelled after the
module_pci_driver macro and eliminates a lot of module init/exit
boilerplate code.

The max_num_isa_dev macro is used to determine the maximum possible number
of ISA devices which may be registered in the I/O port address space given
the address extent of the ISA devices. This macro is useful for computing
the maximum number of elements necessary to hold the base addresses and
interrupt line numbers of ISA devices for the respective ISA driver.

Lacking other documentation, I often found myself repeatedly returning to
the commit message of the initial commit for drivers/base/isa.c authored by
Rene Herman. A verbatim copy of this commit message has been added to
Documentation/isa.txt, along with descriptions for the module_isa driver
and max_num_isa_dev macros, for posterity.

The Apex Embedded Systems STX104 may be used on 64-bit X86 systems. This
patchset allows the Apex Embedded Systems STX104 DAC driver to be compiled
for both 32-bit and 64-bit X86 systems by depending on the ISA_BUS
configuration option rather than the ISA configuration option.

Similarly, many PC/104 and ISA devices may also be used on 64-bit X86
systems. The platform driver had been used to enable support for these
devices on 64-bit X86 systems. With the introduction of the ISA_BUS
configuration option, the respective drivers for these devices may now
utilize the ISA bus driver without restricting support to only 32-bit X86
systems; the following drivers now utilize the ISA bus driver over the
platform driver:

 * WinSystems EBC-C384 watchdog timer
 * ACCES 104-DIO-48E GPIO driver
 * ACCES 104-IDI-48 GPIO driver
 * ACCES 104-IDIO-16 GPIO driver
 * WinSystems WS16C48 GPIO driver

With the utilization of the ISA bus driver, the GPIO drivers in this
patchset may now support multiple devices for each of their respective ISA
drivers. A naming convention for module array parameters has been set based
on the Apex Embedded Systems STX104 DAC driver.

The "base" array module parameter sets the I/O port base address of each
device. The "irq" array module parameter sets the interrupt line number of
each device. Each element of the "base" array corresponds to a discrete
device; each element of the "irq" array corresponds to the respective
device addressed in the respective "base" array element.

William Breathitt Gray (10):
  isa: Implement the module_isa_driver macro
  isa: Implement the max_num_isa_dev macro
  Documentation: Add ISA bus driver documentation
  iio: stx104: Change STX104 dependency to ISA_BUS
  iio: stx104: Utilize the module_isa_driver and max_num_isa_dev macros
  watchdog: ebc-c384_wdt: Utilize the ISA bus driver
  gpio: 104-dio-48e: Utilize the ISA bus driver
  gpio: 104-idi-48: Utilize the ISA bus driver
  gpio: 104-idio-16: Utilize the ISA bus driver
  gpio: ws16c48: Utilize the ISA bus driver

 Documentation/isa.txt           | 121 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 MAINTAINERS                     |   5 ++
 drivers/gpio/Kconfig            |  38 +++++++------
 drivers/gpio/gpio-104-dio-48e.c | 106 +++++++++++++----------------------
 drivers/gpio/gpio-104-idi-48.c  |  86 ++++++++++------------------
 drivers/gpio/gpio-104-idio-16.c |  85 ++++++++++------------------
 drivers/gpio/gpio-ws16c48.c     |  88 ++++++++++-------------------
 drivers/iio/dac/Kconfig         |   2 +-
 drivers/iio/dac/stx104.c        |  24 +-------
 drivers/watchdog/Kconfig        |   2 +-
 drivers/watchdog/ebc-c384_wdt.c |  43 ++++----------
 include/linux/isa.h             |  32 +++++++++++
 12 files changed, 317 insertions(+), 315 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 Documentation/isa.txt

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