Re: [PATCH v3] x86: i8237: Register based on FADT legacy boot flag

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Thu, 22 Mar 2018, Anshuman Gupta wrote:

> From: Rajneesh Bhardwaj <rajneesh.bhardwaj@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> >From Skylake onwards, the platform controller hub (Sunrisepoint PCH) does
> not support legacy DMA operations to IO ports 81h-83h, 87h, 89h-8Bh, 8Fh.
> Currently this driver registers as syscore ops and its resume function is
> called on every resume from S3. On Skylake and Kabylake, this causes a
> resume delay of around 100ms due to port IO operations, which is a problem.
> 
> This change allows to load the driver only when the platform bios
> explicitly supports such devices or has a cut-off date earlier than 2017.

Please explain WHY 2017 is the cut-off date. I still have no clue how that
is decided aside of being a random number.

Thanks,

	tglx