Re: [PATCH] kconfig: kill off GENERIC_IO option

Rob Herring
2017-10-31T19:35:21Z

On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 5:16 PM, Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> wrote:
> The GENERIC_IO option is set for every architecture except tile and score
> as those define NO_IOMEM. The option only controls visibility of
> CONFIG_MTD which doesn't appear to be necessary for any reason, so let's
> just remove GENERIC_IO.

Andrew, there's no clear owner for this, can you take it?

Rob

>
> Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
> Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
> Cc: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
> Cc: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>
> Cc: Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@gmail.com>
> Cc: Cyrille Pitchen <cyrille.pitchen@wedev4u.fr>
> Cc: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
> Cc: user-mode-linux-user@lists.sourceforge.net
> Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
> ---
> arch/um/Kconfig.common | 1 -
> drivers/mtd/Kconfig | 1 -
> lib/Kconfig | 4 ----
> 3 files changed, 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/um/Kconfig.common b/arch/um/Kconfig.common
> index 85f6dd204ab6..5514ec52108f 100644
> --- a/arch/um/Kconfig.common
> +++ b/arch/um/Kconfig.common
> @@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ config UML
> select HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
> select GENERIC_IRQ_SHOW
> select GENERIC_CPU_DEVICES
> - select GENERIC_IO
> select GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS
> select HAVE_GCC_PLUGINS
> select TTY # Needed for line.c
> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/Kconfig b/drivers/mtd/Kconfig
> index 5a2d71729b9a..2a8ac6829d42 100644
> --- a/drivers/mtd/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/mtd/Kconfig
> @@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
> menuconfig MTD
> tristate "Memory Technology Device (MTD) support"
> - depends on GENERIC_IO
> help
> Memory Technology Devices are flash, RAM and similar chips, often
> used for solid state file systems on embedded devices. This option
> diff --git a/lib/Kconfig b/lib/Kconfig
> index b1445b22a6de..994fa37a1d96 100644
> --- a/lib/Kconfig
> +++ b/lib/Kconfig
> @@ -46,10 +46,6 @@ config GENERIC_IOMAP
> bool
> select GENERIC_PCI_IOMAP
>
> -config GENERIC_IO
> - bool
> - default n
> -
> config STMP_DEVICE
> bool
>
> --
> 2.11.0
>