linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.9 33/91] usb: usbfs: Suppress problematic bind and unbind uevents.

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Message-ID: <20191211074633.GE398293@kroah.com>
Date:   Wed, 11 Dec 2019 08:46:33 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        Ingo Rohloff <ingo.rohloff@...terbach.com>,
        linux-usb@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.9 33/91] usb: usbfs: Suppress problematic bind
 and unbind uevents.

On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 05:29:37PM -0500, Sasha Levin wrote:
> From: Ingo Rohloff <ingo.rohloff@...terbach.com>
> 
> [ Upstream commit abb0b3d96a1f9407dd66831ae33985a386d4200d ]
> 
> commit 1455cf8dbfd0 ("driver core: emit uevents when device is bound
> to a driver") added bind and unbind uevents when a driver is bound or
> unbound to a physical device.

That commit only went into 4.14, so this is not needed on any kernel
older than that.

thanks,

greg k-h