Re: [PATCH v8 11/19] sh: add <asm-generic/io.h> including

Hello Arnd!

On Wed, 2023-08-02 at 16:19 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 1, 2023, at 21:21, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> 
> > > I think ideally all the I/O port stuff in arch/sh/ could just be
> > > removed after the conversion to asm-generic/io.h, but the
> > > microdev_ioport_map() function oddity gets in the way of that,
> > > unless someone wants to clean up that platform. As far as I
> > > can tell, the ethernet, display, USB and PCI devices on it already
> > > broke at some point (afbb9d8d5266b, 46bc85872040a), so it might
> > > be easier to remove it entirely.
> > 
> > I don't have this particular hardware, so I cannot comment on this.
> 
> Sure, as I explained, I'm pretty sure that nobody has
> tried to boot this hardware in a long time, so I did not
> expect you to have one.
> 
> I'll try to follow up with a patch to remove the platform
> later on, based on the explations above.

There is no need to remove any platforms now as we're working on converting
arch/sh to device trees anyway and will eventually get rid of all the board-
specific code during that step.

> > > Having the series go into linux-next sounds appropriate like this,
> > > the entire purpose of that is to find such bugs and Andrew can jus
> > > fold the fixup into the broken patch. 
> > > 
> > > Let me know if you prefer the simple version with the extra
> > > #defines or if we should just use the generic inb/outb implementation
> > > immediately and drop microdev in a separate patch.
> > 
> > Please go ahead with the simple version.
> 
> Done,

Thanks,
Adrian

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