linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] mcb: Add missing modpost build support

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Message-ID: <2025120340-clubbing-stash-a933@gregkh>
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2025 09:07:02 +0100
From: Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>
Cc: Jose Javier Rodriguez Barbarin <dev-josejavier.rodriguez@...gon.com>,
	andy@...nel.org, krzk@...nel.org, linus.walleij@...aro.org,
	nsc@...nel.org, bleung@...omium.org,
	heikki.krogerus@...ux.intel.com, abhishekpandit@...omium.org,
	masahiroy@...nel.org, legion@...nel.org, hughd@...gle.com,
	linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Jorge Sanjuan Garcia <dev-jorge.sanjuangarcia@...gon.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] mcb: Add missing modpost build support

On Tue, Dec 02, 2025 at 01:34:21PM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 02, 2025 at 09:42:00AM +0100, Jose Javier Rodriguez Barbarin wrote:
> > mcb bus is not prepared to autoload client drivers with the data defined on
> > the drivers' MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE. modpost cannot access to mcb_table_id
> > inside MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE so the data declared inside is ignored.
> > 
> > Add modpost build support for accessing to the mcb_table_id coded on device
> > drivers' MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE.
> > 
> > Fixes: 3764e82e5150 ("drivers: Introduce MEN Chameleon Bus")
> > Reviewed-by: Jorge Sanjuan Garcia <dev-jorge.sanjuangarcia@...gon.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Jose Javier Rodriguez Barbarin <dev-josejavier.rodriguez@...gon.com>
> > ---
> 
> Acked-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>
> 
> We should be able to get this to Linus by 6.19-rc1.

Why?  What's the rush?  It should have been in -next already to get into
-rc1.

thanks,

greg k-h