From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel•org>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation•org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC 01/32] Kconfig: introduce and depend on LEGACY_PCI
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2021 10:15:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20211228101435.3a55b983@coco.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YcrJAwsKIxxX18pW@kroah.com>
Em Tue, 28 Dec 2021 09:21:23 +0100
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation•org> escreveu:
> On Mon, Dec 27, 2021 at 05:42:46PM +0100, Niklas Schnelle wrote:
> > --- a/drivers/pci/Kconfig
> > +++ b/drivers/pci/Kconfig
> > @@ -23,6 +23,17 @@ menuconfig PCI
> >
> > if PCI
> >
> > +config LEGACY_PCI
> > + bool "Enable support for legacy PCI devices"
> > + depends on HAVE_PCI
> > + help
> > + This option enables support for legacy PCI devices. This includes
> > + PCI devices attached directly or via a bridge on a PCI Express bus.
> > + It also includes compatibility features on PCI Express devices which
> > + make use of legacy I/O spaces.
This Kconfig doesn't seem what it is needed there, as this should be an
arch-dependent feature, and not something that the poor user should be
aware if a given architecture supports it or not. Also, the above will keep
causing warnings or errors with randconfigs.
Also, the "depends on HAVE_CPI" is bogus, as PCI already depends on
HAVE_PCI:
menuconfig PCI
bool "PCI support"
depends on HAVE_PCI
help
This option enables support for the PCI local bus, including
support for PCI-X and the foundations for PCI Express support.
Say 'Y' here unless you know what you are doing.
So, instead, I would expect that a new HAVE_xxx option would be
added at arch/*/Kconfig, like:
config X86
...
select HAVE_PCI_DIRECT_IO
It would also make sense to document it at Documentation/features/.
>
> All you really care about is the "legacy" I/O spaces here, this isn't
> tied to PCI specifically at all, right?
>
> So why not just have a OLD_STYLE_IO config option or something like
> that, to show that it's the i/o functions we care about here, not PCI at
> all?
>
> And maybe not call it "old" or "legacy" as time constantly goes forward,
> just describe it as it is, "DIRECT_IO"?
Agreed. HAVE_PCI_DIRECT_IO (or something similar) seems a more appropriate
name for it.
Thanks,
Mauro
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-12-28 9:15 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <20211227164317.4146918-1-schnelle@linux.ibm.com>
2021-12-27 16:42 ` [RFC 01/32] Kconfig: introduce and depend on LEGACY_PCI Niklas Schnelle
2021-12-27 17:48 ` Guenter Roeck
2021-12-28 2:09 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2021-12-28 8:21 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-12-28 9:15 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab [this message]
2021-12-28 10:58 ` Niklas Schnelle
2021-12-28 12:01 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-12-28 12:54 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2021-12-28 15:06 ` Niklas Schnelle
2021-12-28 17:12 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2021-12-29 11:45 ` Niklas Schnelle
2021-12-29 12:12 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2021-12-29 16:03 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2021-12-29 16:55 ` Niklas Schnelle
2022-01-05 17:42 ` John Garry
2022-01-05 19:47 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2022-01-06 17:41 ` John Garry
2022-01-06 18:14 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2022-01-07 17:16 ` John Garry
2022-01-10 9:34 ` Niklas Schnelle
2021-12-27 16:43 ` [RFC 17/32] net: Kconfig: add HAS_IOPORT dependencies Niklas Schnelle
2021-12-27 17:28 ` Marc Kleine-Budde
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