[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "x86/iosf: Add Kconfig prompt for IOSF_MBI selection" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    x86/iosf: Add Kconfig prompt for IOSF_MBI selection

to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.16.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt15.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 0d0aa00dbb3f2b5090b9cd11f41726a6139e8747 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "David E. Box" <david.e.box at linux.intel.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 14:40:39 -0700
Subject: x86/iosf: Add Kconfig prompt for IOSF_MBI selection

commit aa8e4f22ab7773352ba3895597189b8097f2c307 upstream.

Fixes an error in having the iosf build as 'default m'. On X86 SoC's the iosf
sideband is the only way to access information for some registers, as opposed to
through MSR's on other Intel architectures. While selecting IOSF_MBI is
preferred, it does mean carrying extra code on non-SoC architectures. This
exports the selection to the user, allowing those driver writers to compile out
iosf code if it's not being built.

Signed-off-by: David E. Box <david.e.box at linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1409175640-32426-2-git-send-email-david.e.box@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa at linux.intel.com>
Cc: William Dauchy <william at gandi.net>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 arch/x86/Kconfig | 14 ++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index 04fe4a66c3ec..a51d8286c75d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -2405,9 +2405,19 @@ config X86_DMA_REMAP
 	depends on STA2X11

 config IOSF_MBI
-	tristate
-	default m
+	tristate "Intel System On Chip IOSF Sideband support"
 	depends on PCI
+	---help---
+	  Enables sideband access to mailbox registers on SoC's. The sideband is
+	  available on the following platforms. This list is not meant to be
+	  exclusive.
+	   - BayTrail
+	   - Cherryview
+	   - Braswell
+	   - Quark
+
+	  You should say Y if you are running a kernel on one of these
+	  platforms.

 source "net/Kconfig"