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* [PATCH] gpio/it8761e: Restrict it8761e gpio driver to x86.
@ 2012-01-11 19:16 Grant Likely
  2012-01-12  9:22 ` Milton Miller
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Grant Likely @ 2012-01-11 19:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel; +Cc: Grant Likely, Denis Turischev

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.

Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Cc: Denis Turischev <denis@compulab.co.il>
---
 drivers/gpio/Kconfig |    1 +
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpio/Kconfig b/drivers/gpio/Kconfig
index 37c4bd1..76146b5 100644
--- a/drivers/gpio/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/gpio/Kconfig
@@ -87,6 +87,7 @@ config GPIO_GENERIC_PLATFORM
 
 config GPIO_IT8761E
 	tristate "IT8761E GPIO support"
+	depends on X86
 	help
 	  Say yes here to support GPIO functionality of IT8761E super I/O chip.
 
-- 
1.7.5.4


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* Re: [PATCH] gpio/it8761e: Restrict it8761e gpio driver to x86.
  2012-01-11 19:16 [PATCH] gpio/it8761e: Restrict it8761e gpio driver to x86 Grant Likely
@ 2012-01-12  9:22 ` Milton Miller
  2012-01-12 14:56   ` Grant Likely
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Milton Miller @ 2012-01-12  9:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Grant Likely; +Cc: Denis Turischev, linux-kernel

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

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* Re: [PATCH] gpio/it8761e: Restrict it8761e gpio driver to x86.
  2012-01-12  9:22 ` Milton Miller
@ 2012-01-12 14:56   ` Grant Likely
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Grant Likely @ 2012-01-12 14:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Milton Miller; +Cc: Denis Turischev, linux-kernel

On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 2:22 AM, Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com> wrote:
> 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

okay, will do.

g.

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