From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: kim.phillips@arm.com (Kim Phillips) Date: Tue, 15 May 2018 08:15:19 -0500 Subject: [PATCH 1/4] amba: Export amba_bustype In-Reply-To: References: <20180508140628.f30774c70c4c481bff3f8000@arm.com> Message-ID: <20180515081519.22751a39c49e63224da3acac@arm.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Tue, 15 May 2018 08:59:02 +0200 Ulf Hansson wrote: > On 8 May 2018 at 21:06, Kim Phillips wrote: > > This patch is provided in the context of allowing the Coresight driver > > subsystem to be loaded as modules. Coresight uses amba_bus in its call > > to bus_find_device() in of_coresight_get_endpoint_device() when > > searching for a configurable endpoint device. This patch allows > > Coresight to reference amba_bustype when built as a module. > > Sounds like you are fixing a bug, don't your want this to go for > stable and then also add a fixes tag? How do you consider this a bug fix? What commit would the fixes tag reference? The introduction of the amba bus? Not only aren't busses required to export their bus_type, but that commit predates git. Kim