linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] driver core: disable revocable code from build

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Message-ID: <aYKrdxw3fYf-y52P@google.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2026 02:14:15 +0000
From: Tzung-Bi Shih <tzungbi@...nel.org>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc: Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org>, Danilo Krummrich <dakr@...nel.org>,
	"Rafael J . Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
	Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@....qualcomm.com>,
	Linus Walleij <linusw@...nel.org>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
	Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>,
	Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@...asonboard.com>,
	Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@...g-engineering.com>,
	Simona Vetter <simona.vetter@...ll.ch>,
	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
	Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] driver core: disable revocable code from build

On Tue, Feb 03, 2026 at 01:30:37PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> The revocable code is still under active discussion, and there is no
> in-kernel users of it.  So disable it from the build for now so that no
> one suffers from it being present in the tree, yet leave it in the
> source tree so that others can easily test it by reverting this commit
> and building off of it for future releases.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

And also:

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/Makefile b/tools/testing/selftests/Makefile
index 11b6515ce3d0..56e44a98d6a5 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/Makefile
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/Makefile
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ TARGETS += damon
 TARGETS += devices/error_logs
 TARGETS += devices/probe
 TARGETS += dmabuf-heaps
-TARGETS += drivers/base/revocable
 TARGETS += drivers/dma-buf
 TARGETS += drivers/ntsync
 TARGETS += drivers/s390x/uvdevice

With that,
Reviewed-by: Tzung-Bi Shih <tzungbi@...nel.org>