On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 04:25:11PM -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Erik Mouw wrote:
> > Lots of devices function on embedded stuff without even the slightest
> > hint of an ISA bus.
> 
> ISA isn't just a wiring standard.  It's also lists of typical IO address to 
> probe for the existence of some particular hardware.  That stuff is of 
> course part of the .c driver file.  On the SA11x0 all those probes must of 
> course be configured out and surrounding them with #ifdef CONFIG_ISA instead 
> of #if !defined(CONFIG_SA1100_X) && !defined(CONFIG_FOO) && 
> !defined(CONFIG_BAR) seems much more tasteful to me.

Not really. It's just a matter of supplying a couple of inb()/outb()
like functions, and slightly changing the probing code, and that's
about it. Those kind of patches are acceptable.


Erik

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