From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: Aleksandar Markovic <aleksandar.markovic@rt-rk.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org,
Miodrag Dinic <miodrag.dinic@imgtec.com>,
Goran Ferenc <goran.ferenc@imgtec.com>,
Aleksandar Markovic <aleksandar.markovic@imgtec.com>,
Bo Hu <bohu@google.com>, Douglas Leung <douglas.leung@imgtec.com>,
James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>,
Jin Qian <jinqian@google.com>,
Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com>,
Petar Jovanovic <petar.jovanovic@imgtec.com>,
Raghu Gandham <raghu.gandham@imgtec.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 8/8] MIPS: Unselect ARCH_MIGHT_HAVE_PC_SERIO if MIPS_GENERIC
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2017 12:52:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170826105235.GF7433@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1503061833-26563-9-git-send-email-aleksandar.markovic@rt-rk.com>
On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 03:09:00PM +0200, Aleksandar Markovic wrote:
> From: Miodrag Dinic <miodrag.dinic@imgtec.com>
>
> This effectively disables i8042 driver for MIPS_GENERIC kernel platform.
> Currently, only sead-3, boston and ranchu boards are supported by the
> MIPS generic kernel and none of them require this driver.
> More specifically, kernel would crash if it gets enabled, because
> i8042 driver would try to read from an non-existent IO register.
And many more platforms would beneftig from disabling this option because
let's face it, the i8042's heydays are over. So rather than spreading
random depenencies on MIPS_GENERIC or other platforms through Kconfig
please push the select of ARCH_MIGHT_HAVE_PC_SERIO to the platforms.
Ralf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-08-26 10:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-08-18 13:08 [PATCH v4 0/8] MIPS: Add virtual Ranchu board as a generic-based board Aleksandar Markovic
2017-08-18 13:08 ` [PATCH v4 1/8] Documentation: Add device tree binding for Goldfish RTC driver Aleksandar Markovic
2017-08-18 13:08 ` Aleksandar Markovic
2017-08-25 8:34 ` Alexandre Belloni
2017-08-25 8:34 ` Alexandre Belloni
2017-08-18 13:08 ` [PATCH v4 2/8] rtc: goldfish: Add RTC driver for Android emulator Aleksandar Markovic
2017-08-25 8:34 ` Alexandre Belloni
2017-08-18 13:08 ` [PATCH v4 3/8] Documentation: Add device tree binding for Goldfish PIC driver Aleksandar Markovic
2017-08-18 13:08 ` Aleksandar Markovic
2017-08-18 13:08 ` [PATCH v4 4/8] irqchip/irq-goldfish-pic: Add " Aleksandar Markovic
2017-08-18 13:53 ` Marc Zyngier
2017-08-18 13:08 ` [PATCH v4 5/8] MIPS: ranchu: Add Ranchu as a new generic-based board Aleksandar Markovic
2017-08-26 10:46 ` Ralf Baechle
2017-08-18 13:08 ` [PATCH v4 6/8] Documentation: Add device tree binding for Goldfish FB driver Aleksandar Markovic
2017-08-18 16:04 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2017-08-18 13:08 ` [PATCH v4 7/8] video: goldfishfb: Add support for device tree bindings Aleksandar Markovic
2017-08-18 13:08 ` Aleksandar Markovic
2017-08-18 13:09 ` [PATCH v4 8/8] MIPS: Unselect ARCH_MIGHT_HAVE_PC_SERIO if MIPS_GENERIC Aleksandar Markovic
2017-08-26 10:52 ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2017-08-28 9:33 ` Miodrag Dinic
2017-08-29 4:55 ` Florian Fainelli
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