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From:   Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Date:   Tue, 14 Mar 2023 15:17:20 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 03/38] char: impi, tpm: depend on HAS_IOPORT
To:     Niklas Schnelle <schnelle@linux.ibm.com>
Cc:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
        Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>,
        Peter Huewe <peterhuewe@gmx.de>,
        Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>,
        Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>,
        Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>,
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        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>,
        Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>,
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        Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>,
        Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
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Hi Niklas,

On Tue, Mar 14, 2023 at 1:12 PM Niklas Schnelle <schnelle@linux.ibm.com> wrote:
> In a future patch HAS_IOPORT=n will result in inb()/outb() and friends
> not being declared. We thus need to add this dependency and ifdef
> sections of code using inb()/outb() as alternative access methods.
>
> Co-developed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Niklas Schnelle <schnelle@linux.ibm.com>

Thanks for your patch!

> --- a/drivers/char/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/char/Kconfig
> @@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ config TTY_PRINTK_LEVEL
>  config PRINTER
>         tristate "Parallel printer support"
>         depends on PARPORT
> +       depends on HAS_IOPORT

This looks wrong to me.
drivers/char/lp.c uses the parport API, no direct I/O port access.

>         help
>           If you intend to attach a printer to the parallel port of your Linux
>           box (as opposed to using a serial printer; if the connector at the

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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