diff --git a/drivers/char/Kconfig b/drivers/char/Kconfig
index a26d917..eeb5d96 100644
--- a/drivers/char/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/char/Kconfig
@@ -1071,5 +1071,11 @@
 	  /sys/devices/platform/telco_clock, with a number of files for
 	  controlling the behavior of this hardware.
 
+config DEVPORT
+	bool
+	depends on !M68K
+	depends on ISA || PCI
+	default y
+
 endmenu
 
diff --git a/drivers/char/mem.c b/drivers/char/mem.c
index 2c6fc505..cc9a9d0 100644
--- a/drivers/char/mem.c
+++ b/drivers/char/mem.c
@@ -551,7 +551,7 @@
  	return virtr + wrote;
 }
 
-#if (defined(CONFIG_ISA) || defined(CONFIG_PCI)) && !defined(__mc68000__)
+#ifdef CONFIG_DEVPORT
 static ssize_t read_port(struct file * file, char __user * buf,
 			 size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
 {
@@ -834,7 +834,7 @@
 	.splice_write	= splice_write_null,
 };
 
-#if (defined(CONFIG_ISA) || defined(CONFIG_PCI)) && !defined(__mc68000__)
+#ifdef CONFIG_DEVPORT
 static const struct file_operations port_fops = {
 	.llseek		= memory_lseek,
 	.read		= read_port,
@@ -912,7 +912,7 @@
 		case 3:
 			filp->f_op = &null_fops;
 			break;
-#if (defined(CONFIG_ISA) || defined(CONFIG_PCI)) && !defined(__mc68000__)
+#ifdef CONFIG_DEVPORT
 		case 4:
 			filp->f_op = &port_fops;
 			break;
@@ -959,7 +959,7 @@
 	{1, "mem",     S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR | S_IRGRP, &mem_fops},
 	{2, "kmem",    S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR | S_IRGRP, &kmem_fops},
 	{3, "null",    S_IRUGO | S_IWUGO,           &null_fops},
-#if (defined(CONFIG_ISA) || defined(CONFIG_PCI)) && !defined(__mc68000__)
+#ifdef CONFIG_DEVPORT
 	{4, "port",    S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR | S_IRGRP, &port_fops},
 #endif
 	{5, "zero",    S_IRUGO | S_IWUGO,           &zero_fops},