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

[Linux regression tracking (Thorsten Leemhuis)]

On 12.09.23 12:48, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 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 :)

Okay, many thx. And sorry for prodding and being slightly annoying, but
it's part of this regression tracker thinghy (at least to my
understanding of it).

Have a nice day! Ciao, Thorsten