linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] asm-generic: correct reference to GENERIC_LIB_DEVMEM_IS

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Date:   Thu, 7 Jul 2022 14:13:02 +0200
From:   Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:     Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com>
Cc:     Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@...gle.com>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>,
        linux-arch <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors <kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] asm-generic: correct reference to GENERIC_LIB_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED

On Thu, Jul 7, 2022 at 1:40 PM Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Oct 6, 2021 at 6:52 PM Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@...gle.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 06 Oct 2021 08:17:38 PDT (-0700), Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > > On Wed, Oct 6, 2021 at 5:00 PM Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Commit 527701eda5f1 ("lib: Add a generic version of devmem_is_allowed()")
> > >> introduces the config symbol GENERIC_LIB_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED, but then
> > >> falsely refers to CONFIG_GENERIC_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED (note the missing LIB
> > >> in the reference) in ./include/asm-generic/io.h.
> > >>
> > >> Luckily, ./scripts/checkkconfigsymbols.py warns on non-existing configs:
> > >>
> > >> GENERIC_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED
> > >> Referencing files: include/asm-generic/io.h
> > >>
> > >> Correct the name of the config to the intended one.
> > >>
> > >> Fixes: 527701eda5f1 ("lib: Add a generic version of devmem_is_allowed()")
> > >> Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com>
> > >
> > > Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@...gle.com>
> > Acked-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@...gle.com>
> >
> > Thanks.  I'm going to assume this is going in through some other tree,
> > but IIUC I sent the buggy patch up so LMK if you're expecting it to go
> > through mine.
>
> Palmer, Arnd,
>
> the patch in this mail thread got lost and was not picked up yet.
>
> MAINTAINERS suggests that Arnd takes patches to include/asm-generic/,
> since commit 1527aab617af ("asm-generic: list Arnd as asm-generic
> maintainer") in 2009, but maybe the responsibility for those files has
> actually moved on to somebody (or nobody) else and we just did not
> record that yet in MAINTAINERS.
>
> Arnd, will you pick this patch and provide it further to Linus Torvalds?
>
> Otherwise, Palmer already suggested picking it up himself.
>

I've applied it to the asm-generic tree and can send it as a bugfix
pull request. I don't have any other fixer for that branch at the moment,
so if Palmer has other fixes for the riscv tree already, it would
save me making a pull request if he picks it up there.

       Arnd