Re: [GIT PULL] Driver core update for 4.7-rc1

From: Greg KH
Date: Sat May 21 2016 - 01:05:05 EST


On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 09:51:18PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 8:23 PM, Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > William Breathitt Gray (13):
> > base: isa: Remove X86_32 dependency
> > isa: Decouple X86_32 dependency from the ISA Kconfig option
>
> So I'm going to revert these unless I get
>
> (a) a good reason for them
>
> (b) patches to get rid of the incessant warnings these cause.

What warnings? I haven't seen any reports of warnings, what .config
causes them?

> Most of the ISA drivers are not 64-bit safe. They give compiler
> warnings, and they will definitely simply not work. So just blindly
> enabling that shit is not the answer.
>
> We've never needed this before, why do we need it now?

I'll let William answer that, it seems he has some crazy isa hardware
for x86_64 platforms...

thanks,

greg k-h