Re: [PATCH 04/10] iio: stx104: Change STX104 dependency to ISA_BUS

From	One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH 04/10] iio: stx104: Change STX104 dependency to ISA_BUS
Date	2016-04-09 18:00 +0200
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> It looks like I'm in quite a pickle. Even if the patch for the PnPBIOS
> driver removes the errors and warnings, there may be runtime bugs in
> other drivers expecting X86_32. The only way I can see to prevent that
> is to audit all the drivers which depend on the ISA option -- a behemoth
> undertaking which would be far too impractical and error-prone for me to
> do.

I actually wouldn't worry. We've got lots of other drivers that don't
work on all the platforms they should because nobody has ever tried them
out.

At least if they compile on the different platforms people will be able
to try them. It's not making anything any worse - it used to not work and
it still doesn't work is the failure case 8)

Alan

Thread

[PATCH 00/10] Use the ISA bus driver for PC/104 and ISA devices William Breathitt Gray <vilhelm.gray@gmail.com> - 2016-04-07 16:50 +0200
  [PATCH 01/10] isa: Implement the module_isa_driver macro William Breathitt Gray <vilhelm.gray@gmail.com> - 2016-04-07 16:50 +0200
  [PATCH 06/10] watchdog: ebc-c384_wdt: Utilize the ISA bus driver William Breathitt Gray <vilhelm.gray@gmail.com> - 2016-04-07 16:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 06/10] watchdog: ebc-c384_wdt: Utilize the ISA bus driver Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> - 2016-04-08 02:40 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 06/10] watchdog: ebc-c384_wdt: Utilize the ISA bus driver William Breathitt Gray <vilhelm.gray@gmail.com> - 2016-04-08 14:10 +0200
  [PATCH 04/10] iio: stx104: Change STX104 dependency to ISA_BUS William Breathitt Gray <vilhelm.gray@gmail.com> - 2016-04-07 17:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 04/10] iio: stx104: Change STX104 dependency to ISA_BUS Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> - 2016-04-08 02:50 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 04/10] iio: stx104: Change STX104 dependency to ISA_BUS William Breathitt Gray <vilhelm.gray@gmail.com> - 2016-04-08 14:40 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 04/10] iio: stx104: Change STX104 dependency to ISA_BUS Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> - 2016-04-08 15:20 +0200
          Re: [PATCH 04/10] iio: stx104: Change STX104 dependency to ISA_BUS William Breathitt Gray <vilhelm.gray@gmail.com> - 2016-04-08 17:20 +0200
            Re: [PATCH 04/10] iio: stx104: Change STX104 dependency to ISA_BUS Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> - 2016-04-08 20:30 +0200
              Re: [PATCH 04/10] iio: stx104: Change STX104 dependency to ISA_BUS William Breathitt Gray <vilhelm.gray@gmail.com> - 2016-04-08 21:30 +0200
                Re: [PATCH 04/10] iio: stx104: Change STX104 dependency to ISA_BUS One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> - 2016-04-09 15:00 +0200
                Re: [PATCH 04/10] iio: stx104: Change STX104 dependency to ISA_BUS William Breathitt Gray <vilhelm.gray@gmail.com> - 2016-04-09 16:00 +0200
                Re: [PATCH 04/10] iio: stx104: Change STX104 dependency to ISA_BUS One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> - 2016-04-09 18:00 +0200
  [PATCH 02/10] isa: Implement the max_num_isa_dev macro William Breathitt Gray <vilhelm.gray@gmail.com> - 2016-04-07 17:00 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 00/10] Use the ISA bus driver for PC/104 and ISA devices Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> - 2016-04-11 09:00 +0200

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