From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Maxime Coquelin <mcoquelin.stm32@gmail.com>,
Alexandre Torgue <alexandre.torgue@foss.st.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] clocksource/drivers/stm: Fix section mismatches
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2025 11:39:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2025102047-clock-utopia-323b@gregkh> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aPYBtV2gK9YMH-dT@hovoldconsulting.com>
On Mon, Oct 20, 2025 at 11:32:37AM +0200, Johan Hovold wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 17, 2025 at 07:49:43AM +0200, Johan Hovold wrote:
> > Platform drivers can be probed after their init sections have been
> > discarded (e.g. on probe deferral or manual rebind through sysfs) so the
> > probe function must not live in init. Device managed resource actions
> > similarly cannot be discarded.
> >
> > The "_probe" suffix of the driver structure name prevents modpost from
> > warning about this so replace it to catch any similar future issues.
> >
> > Fixes: cec32ac75827 ("clocksource/drivers/nxp-timer: Add the System Timer Module for the s32gx platforms")
> > Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 6.16
> > Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
>
> Addressing this apparently depends on commit 84b1a903aed8
> ("time/sched_clock: Export symbol for sched_clock register function")
> which was merged for 6.18-rc1.
>
> So the stable tag should be dropped (e.g. unless it's possible to
> backport also the dependency to 6.17).
Quite easy to do so, just ask us! :)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-10-20 9:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-10-17 5:49 [PATCH] clocksource/drivers/stm: Fix section mismatches Johan Hovold
2025-10-20 9:32 ` Johan Hovold
2025-10-20 9:39 ` Greg KH [this message]
2025-10-20 9:44 ` Johan Hovold
2025-11-05 13:32 ` Daniel Lezcano
2025-11-10 14:51 ` Johan Hovold
2025-11-12 9:57 ` Daniel Lezcano
2025-11-12 10:58 ` Johan Hovold
2025-11-12 15:22 ` Daniel Lezcano
2025-11-26 14:40 ` [tip: timers/clocksource] clocksource/drivers/nxp-stm: " tip-bot2 for Johan Hovold
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