Re: [PATCH v4 05/41] counter: add HAS_IOPORT dependencies

From: Niklas Schnelle
Date: Fri May 19 2023 - 09:39:18 EST


On Fri, 2023-05-19 at 15:17 +0200, Niklas Schnelle wrote:
> On Thu, 2023-05-18 at 21:26 -0400, William Breathitt Gray wrote:
> > On Tue, May 16, 2023 at 01:00:01PM +0200, Niklas Schnelle wrote:
> > > In a future patch HAS_IOPORT=n will result in inb()/outb() and friends
> > > not being declared. We thus need to add HAS_IOPORT as dependency for
> > > those drivers using them.
> > >
> > > Co-developed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Signed-off-by: Niklas Schnelle <schnelle@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Hi Niklas,
> >
> > The change itself is fine, but please update the description to reflect
> > that this is adding a depends on HAS_IOPORT_MAP rather than HAS_IOPORT,
> > along with the reason why it's needed (i.e. devm_ioport_map() is used).
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > William Breathitt Gray
> >
> >
>
> Right, this clearly needs adjustment. I went with the following commit
> message for v5:
>
> "counter: add HAS_IOPORT_MAP dependency
>
> The 104_QUAD_8 counter driver uses devm_ioport_map() without depending
> on HAS_IOPORT_MAP. This causes compilation to fail on platforms such as
> s390 which do not support I/O port mapping. Add the missing
> HAS_IOPORT_MAP dependency to fix this."
>

Just noticed this isn't entirely correct. As devm_ioport_map() has an
empty stub for HAS_IOPORT_MAP=n this doesn't lead to a compile error it
just doesn't work. Will reword to "This causes the driver to not be
useable on platforms ..."