linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.6 12/17] linux/export: clean up the IA-64 KSYM

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Message-ID: <ZW_VD-H7ota8GZwE@sashalap>
Date:   Tue, 5 Dec 2023 20:57:35 -0500
From:   Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
To:     Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>,
        Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>, deller@....de,
        ndesaulniers@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.6 12/17] linux/export: clean up the IA-64
 KSYM_FUNC macro

On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 09:06:54PM +0100, Lukas Bulwahn wrote:
>On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 4:32 PM Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org> wrote:
>>
>> From: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com>
>>
>> [ Upstream commit 9e0be3f50c0e8517d0238b62409c20bcb8cd8785 ]
>>
>> With commit cf8e8658100d ("arch: Remove Itanium (IA-64) architecture"),
>> there is no need to keep the IA-64 definition of the KSYM_FUNC macro.
>>
>> Clean up the IA-64 definition of the KSYM_FUNC macro.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com>
>> Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
>> ---
>
>I am a bit surprised that this is picked up for v6.6. This commit only
>makes sense after IA-64 architecture is removed and I do not think we
>want to backport that change to v6.6. So, this change here should not
>be backported as well.

I'll drop it, thanks!

-- 
Thanks,
Sasha