From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753101AbcBVTbw (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Feb 2016 14:31:52 -0500 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:44374 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751828AbcBVTbv (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Feb 2016 14:31:51 -0500 Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2016 11:31:50 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Thomas Gleixner Cc: William Breathitt Gray , mingo@redhat.com, hpa@zytor.com, x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] base: isa: Remove X86_32 dependency Message-ID: <20160222193150.GA14925@kroah.com> References: <20160122162806.GA18788@sophia> <56CA9016.3080108@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 07:39:36PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Sun, 21 Feb 2016, William Breathitt Gray wrote: > > > On 01/27/2016 05:07 AM, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > > On Fri, 22 Jan 2016, William Breathitt Gray wrote: > > >> Many motherboards utilize a LPC to ISA bridge in order to decode > > >> ISA-style port-mapped I/O addresses. This is particularly true for > > >> embedded motherboards supporting the PC/104 bus (a bus specification > > >> derived from ISA). > > >> > > >> These motherboards are now commonly running 64-bit x86 processors. The > > >> X86_32 dependency should be removed from the ISA bus configuration > > >> option in order to support these newer motherboards. > > >> > > >> A new config option, CONFIG_ISA_BUS, is introduced to allow for the > > >> compilation of the ISA bus driver independent of the CONFIG_ISA option. > > >> Devices which communicate via ISA-compatible buses can now be supported > > >> independent of the dependencies of the CONFIG_ISA option. > > >> > > >> Signed-off-by: William Breathitt Gray > > > > > > Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner > > > > What more can I do to help get this patch pulled in for the merge > > window? > > If Greg doesn't pick it up, I'll pull it into x86 later this week It's not in my queue so I don't even have it here to pick up :(