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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 8/8] MIPS: Unselect ARCH_MIGHT_HAVE_PC_SERIO if
 MIPS_GENERIC
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On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 03:09:00PM +0200, Aleksandar Markovic wrote:

> From: Miodrag Dinic <miodrag.dinic@imgtec.com>
> 
> This effectively disables i8042 driver for MIPS_GENERIC kernel platform.
> Currently, only sead-3, boston and ranchu boards are supported by the
> MIPS generic kernel and none of them require this driver.
> More specifically, kernel would crash if it gets enabled, because
> i8042 driver would try to read from an non-existent IO register.

And many more platforms would beneftig from disabling this option because
let's face it, the i8042's heydays are over.  So rather than spreading
random depenencies on MIPS_GENERIC or other platforms through Kconfig
please push the select of ARCH_MIGHT_HAVE_PC_SERIO to the platforms.

  Ralf