linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] phy: Fix typo in drivers/phy/phy-exynos5250-sata.c module which fixes the build

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Date:	Thu, 12 Jun 2014 12:01:59 +0200
From:	Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.de>
To:	guillaume.gardet@...e.fr
Cc:	Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@...com>,
	Sachin Kamat <sachin.kamat@...sung.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	openSUSE Kernel ML <opensuse-kernel@...nsuse.org>,
	Girish K S <ks.giri@...sung.com>,
	Yuvaraj C D <yuvaraj.cd@...sung.com>,
	Sachin Kamat <spk.linux@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] phy: Fix typo in drivers/phy/phy-exynos5250-sata.c
 module which fixes the build

Le Thursday 12 June 2014 à 11:44 +0200, Guillaume Gardet a écrit :
> Le 12/06/2014 11:03, Kishon Vijay Abraham I a écrit :
> >
> > On Thursday 12 June 2014 02:14 PM, Guillaume Gardet wrote:
> >> Le 12/06/2014 10:36, Sachin Kamat a écrit :
> >>> Hi Guillaume,
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 1:48 PM, Guillaume Gardet
> >>> <guillaume.gardet@...e.fr> wrote:
> >>>> Hi,
> >>>>
> >>>> please find in attachment a patch which fixes a typo in drivers/phy/phy-exynos5250-sata.c module license.
> >>>> It fixes the following build error:
> >>>>     FATAL: modpost: GPL-incompatible module phy-exynos5250-sata.ko uses GPL-only symbol 'platform_driver_unregister'
> >>>>
> >>>> Please keep me in CC since I am not subscribed to the linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org ML.
> >>>>
> >>>> Signed-off-by: Guillaume GARDET <guillaume.gardet@...nsuse.org>
> >>> A similar patch has already been submitted by Arnd. Please see below:
> >>> https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/3/15/40
> >> Was not aware of this one. Will it be merged? I can see that it was sent 3 months ago and got no answer apparently.
> > It's in mainline kernel already
> > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/drivers/phy/phy-exynos5250-sata.c?id=fe04e4297e6eab014a2cf152319b9f361df07faf
> 
> Ok. It is in mainline but not in 3.15.

And as it stands, it won't be, because stable@...r.kernel.org was not
Cc'd. "Typo" in the subject makes it sound like a trivial and minor
change. "Fix module loading" would probably have made it clearer that it
fixes a real issue.

Guillaume, if this bothers you, please write to stable@...r.kernel.org
and kindly ask them to consider including this commit in future stable
releases.

-- 
Jean Delvare
SUSE L3 Support

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