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From: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
To: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Cc: Denis Turischev <denis@compulab.co.il>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gpio/it8761e: Restrict it8761e gpio driver to x86.
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 03:22:05 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <document-depends-on-reason@mdm.bga.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1326309371-10757-1-git-send-email-grant.likely@secretlab.ca>

On Wed Jan 11 2012 - 14:16:36 EST, Grant Likely wrote:
> This driver does an unconditional read of io space during module init which
> causes a bad dereference on ARM. It looks to me like this is an x86 only
> drivers, so restrict it to only compile on x86.

> config GPIO_IT8761E
>          tristate "IT8761E GPIO support"
> +        depends on X86
>          help
>            Say yes here to support GPIO functionality of IT8761E super I/O chip.


Please add a comment to the Kconfig stanza with the reason for the
dependancy so people don't have to be git blame masters to know why
its there.

Something like
        depends on X86 # unconditional read of io space during module init

thanks,
milton

  reply	other threads:[~2012-01-12  9:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-11 19:16 [PATCH] gpio/it8761e: Restrict it8761e gpio driver to x86 Grant Likely
2012-01-12  9:22 ` Milton Miller [this message]
2012-01-12 14:56   ` Grant Likely

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