Re: [PATCH] Revert "comedi: add HAS_IOPORT dependencies"

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Tue, Sep 12, 2023 at 12:39:28PM +0200, Linux regression tracking (Thorsten Leemhuis) wrote:
> On 12.09.23 12:13, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 12, 2023 at 11:44:39AM +0200, Linux regression tracking (Thorsten Leemhuis) wrote:
> >> On 05.09.23 11:09, Ian Abbott wrote:
> >>> This reverts commit b5c75b68b7ded84d4c82118974ce3975a4dcaa74.
> >>>
> >>> The commit makes it impossible to select configuration options that
> >>> depend on COMEDI_8254, COMEDI_DAS08, COMEDI_NI_LABPC, or
> >>> COMEDI_AMPLC_DIO200 options due to changing 'select' directives to
> >>> 'depends on' directives and there being no other way to select those
> >>> codependent configuration options.
> >>>
> >>> Fixes: b5c75b68b7de ("comedi: add HAS_IOPORT dependencies")
> >>> Cc: Niklas Schnelle <schnelle@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >>> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # v6.5+
> >>> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Ian Abbott <abbotti@xxxxxxxxx>
> >>
> >> Hmmm, that fix for a regression from the 6.5 cycle was posted a week ago
> >> but didn't get a single reply afaics and hasn't hit next.
> >>
> >> Greg, is this still in your to-review queue and just delayed due to the
> >> merge window? Or are you waiting for something? A ACK fromn Niklas
> >> maybe? Or a newer patch to address the kernel test robot report in case
> >> its relevant?
> > 
> > The merge window "freeze" ended on Monday, give me a chance to catch up
> > with patches please, this is part of my very large todo mbox:
> > 
> > 	$ mdfrm -c ~/mail/todo/
> > 	1637 messages in /home/gregkh/mail/todo/
> 
> Well, I know that you deal with a lot of patches and often wonder how
> you manage to do all that great work, but nevertheless please allow me
> to ask:
> 
> I assume that that not all of those 1600+ patches are fixes for
> regressions, so should a revert for a very recent regression be in a
> different mbox with a slightly higher priority[1] to get handled before
> the others?

Nope, I lump them all together into one mbox and then sort them when
processing.  Works faster overall for me.  I'll get to it by the end of
this week, hopefully :)

thanks,

greg k-h