Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] driver core: Make driver_deferred_probe_timeout a static variable

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Mon, Dec 12, 2022 at 09:50:16AM +0100, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
> Hello Greg,
> 
> On 11/17/22 20:14, John Stultz wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 16, 2022 at 3:54 AM Javier Martinez Canillas
> > <javierm@redhat.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> It is not used outside of its compilation unit, so there's no need to
> >> export this variable.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>
> >> ---
> >>
> >> (no changes since v1)
> >>
> >>  drivers/base/dd.c             | 6 ++----
> >>  include/linux/device/driver.h | 1 -
> >>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/drivers/base/dd.c b/drivers/base/dd.c
> >> index 3dda62503102..040b4060f903 100644
> >> --- a/drivers/base/dd.c
> >> +++ b/drivers/base/dd.c
> >> @@ -257,13 +257,11 @@ static int deferred_devs_show(struct seq_file *s, void *data)
> >>  DEFINE_SHOW_ATTRIBUTE(deferred_devs);
> >>
> >>  #ifdef CONFIG_MODULES
> >> -int driver_deferred_probe_timeout = 10;
> >> +static int driver_deferred_probe_timeout = 10;
> >>  #else
> >> -int driver_deferred_probe_timeout;
> >> +static int driver_deferred_probe_timeout;
> >>  #endif
> >>
> >> -EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(driver_deferred_probe_timeout);
> >> -
> > 
> > Yeah, I added the EXPORT for the regulator code to use it in
> > dca0b44957e5 but that got backed out when setting
> > driver_deferred_probe_timeout to 30s was reverted, and this bit was
> > forgotten.
> > 
> > Thanks for catching this!
> > 
> > Acked-by: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com>
> >
> 
> Could you please pick this patch? Is a fix independent of the other
> patches in the series and it has already been acked by John.

It is the middle of the merge window and I can't take anything now until
after 6.2-rc1 is out.  I also really can't take individual patches out
of a patch series easily, so please just resend it as a single patch
when 6.2-rc1 is out.

thanks,

greg k-h