A recent suggested change to the IFS code has shown that the userspace API needs a bit more work, see: https://lore.kernel.org/platform-driver-x86/20220708151938.986530-1-jithu.joseph@intel.com/ Mark it as BROKEN before 5.19 ships, to give ourselves one more kernel-devel cycle to get the userspace API right.
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| 1 | 1 | config INTEL_IFS |
| 2 | 2 | tristate "Intel In Field Scan" |
| 3 | 3 | depends on X86 && CPU_SUP_INTEL && 64BIT && SMP |
| 4 | + # Discussion on the list has shown that the sysfs API needs a bit | |
| 5 | + # more work, mark this as broken for now | |
| 6 | + depends on BROKEN | |
| 4 | 7 | select INTEL_IFS_DEVICE |
| 5 | 8 | help |
| 6 | 9 | Enable support for the In Field Scan capability in select |