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From:   Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Date:   Thu, 23 Mar 2023 17:11:39 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 15/38] leds: add HAS_IOPORT dependencies
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc:     Niklas Schnelle <schnelle@linux.ibm.com>,
        Lee Jones <lee@kernel.org>, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
        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>,
        Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>,
        Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>,
        Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>,
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Hi Arnd,

On Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 2:32 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 23, 2023, at 13:42, Niklas Schnelle wrote:
> > On Thu, 2023-03-16 at 16:14 +0000, Lee Jones wrote:
> >> On Tue, 14 Mar 2023, 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.
> >> >
> >> > Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
> >> > Co-developed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
> >> > Signed-off-by: Niklas Schnelle <schnelle@linux.ibm.com>
> >> > ---
> >> >  drivers/leds/Kconfig | 2 +-
> >> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >>
> >> Applied, thanks
> >
> > Sorry should have maybe been more clear, without patch 1 of this series
> > this won't work as the HAS_IOPORT config option is new and will be
> > missing otherwise. There's currently two options of merging this,
> > either all at once or first only patch 1 and then the additional
> > patches per subsystem until finally the last patch can remove
> > inb()/outb() and friends when HAS_IOPORT is unset.
>
> It's probably too late now to squeeze patch 1 into linux-6.3
> as a late preparation patch for the rest of the series in 6.4.
>
> It would be good if you could respin that patch separately
> anyway, so I can add it to the asm-generic tree and make
> sure we get it ready for the next merge window.

Through an immutable branch, else all dependencies have to wait
for v6.5?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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