Michael, Thanks for the comment. Here it is the updated patch which fixes x86 build.
Thanks Haren Some power systems do not have legacy ISA devices. So, /dev/port is not a valid interface on these systems. User level tools such as kbdrate is trying to access the device using this interface which is causing the system crash. This patch will fix this issue by not creating this interface on these powerpc systems. Signed-off-by: Haren Myneni <ha...@us.ibm.com> diff -Naurp linux.orig/arch/powerpc/include/asm/io.h linux/arch/powerpc/include/asm/io.h --- linux.orig/arch/powerpc/include/asm/io.h 2012-06-16 01:15:11.000000000 -0500 +++ linux/arch/powerpc/include/asm/io.h 2012-06-16 01:15:20.000000000 -0500 @@ -20,6 +20,14 @@ extern int check_legacy_ioport(unsigned #define _PNPWRP 0xa79 #define PNPBIOS_BASE 0xf000 +#ifdef CONFIG_PPC64 +extern struct pci_dev *isa_bridge_pcidev; +/* + * has legacy ISA devices ? + */ +#define arch_has_dev_port() (isa_bridge_pcidev != NULL) +#endif + #include <linux/device.h> #include <linux/io.h> diff -Naurp linux.orig/drivers/char/mem.c linux/drivers/char/mem.c --- linux.orig/drivers/char/mem.c 2012-06-16 01:15:42.000000000 -0500 +++ linux/drivers/char/mem.c 2012-06-16 01:15:53.000000000 -0500 @@ -27,14 +27,16 @@ #include <linux/splice.h> #include <linux/pfn.h> #include <linux/export.h> +#include <linux/io.h> #include <asm/uaccess.h> -#include <asm/io.h> #ifdef CONFIG_IA64 # include <linux/efi.h> #endif +#define DEVPORT_MINOR 4 + static inline unsigned long size_inside_page(unsigned long start, unsigned long size) { @@ -894,6 +896,13 @@ static int __init chr_dev_init(void) for (minor = 1; minor < ARRAY_SIZE(devlist); minor++) { if (!devlist[minor].name) continue; + + /* + * Create /dev/port? + */ + if ((minor == DEVPORT_MINOR) && !arch_has_dev_port()) + continue; + device_create(mem_class, NULL, MKDEV(MEM_MAJOR, minor), NULL, devlist[minor].name); } diff -Naurp linux.orig/include/linux/io.h linux/include/linux/io.h --- linux.orig/include/linux/io.h 2012-06-16 01:16:13.000000000 -0500 +++ linux/include/linux/io.h 2012-06-16 01:16:24.000000000 -0500 @@ -67,4 +67,13 @@ int check_signature(const volatile void const unsigned char *signature, int length); void devm_ioremap_release(struct device *dev, void *res); +/* + * Some systems do not have legacy ISA devices. + * /dev/port is not a valid interface on these systems. + * So for those archs, <asm/io.h> should define the following symbol. + */ +#ifndef arch_has_dev_port +#define arch_has_dev_port() (1) +#endif + #endif /* _LINUX_IO_H */ _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev