Re: Patch "gpio: idio-16: Actually make use of the GPIO_IDIO_16 symbol namespace" has been added to the 6.12-stable tree

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Mon, Dec 16, 2024 at 09:32:27AM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 15, 2024 at 11:54:56AM -0500, Sasha Levin wrote:
> > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
> > 
> >     gpio: idio-16: Actually make use of the GPIO_IDIO_16 symbol namespace
> > 
> > to the 6.12-stable tree which can be found at:
> >     http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
> > 
> > The filename of the patch is:
> >      gpio-idio-16-actually-make-use-of-the-gpio_idio_16-s.patch
> > and it can be found in the queue-6.12 subdirectory.
> > 
> > If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
> > please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > commit 8845b746c447c715080e448d62aeed25f73fb205
> > Author: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@baylibre.com>
> > Date:   Tue Dec 3 18:26:30 2024 +0100
> > 
> >     gpio: idio-16: Actually make use of the GPIO_IDIO_16 symbol namespace
> >     
> >     [ Upstream commit 9ac4b58fcef0f9fc03fa6e126a5f53c1c71ada8a ]
> >     
> >     DEFAULT_SYMBOL_NAMESPACE must already be defined when <linux/export.h>
> >     is included. So move the define above the include block.
> >     
> >     Fixes: b9b1fc1ae119 ("gpio: idio-16: Introduce the ACCES IDIO-16 GPIO library module")
> >     Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@baylibre.com>
> >     Acked-by: William Breathitt Gray <wbg@kernel.org>
> >     Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241203172631.1647792-2-u.kleine-koenig@baylibre.com
> >     Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@linaro.org>
> >     Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
> 
> Hmm, I don't think the advantages here are very relevant. The only
> problem fixed here is that the symbols provided by the driver are not in
> the expected namespace. So this is nothing a user would wail about as
> everything works as intended. The big upside of dropping this patch is
> that you can (I think) also drop the backport of commit ceb8bf2ceaa7
> ("module: Convert default symbol namespace to string literal").

Yes, as the previous commit that ceb8bf2ceaa7 fixes is not in the tree,
ceb8bf2ceaa7 should be removed, I'll go do that now, and drop this one
too, thanks.

greg k-h