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

From: Niklas Schnelle
Date: Fri May 19 2023 - 09:40:58 EST


On Fri, 2023-05-19 at 15:38 +0200, Niklas Schnelle wrote:
> 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 ..."

s/useable/usable/