This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
sysfs: symlink: export sysfs_create_link_nowarn()
to the 4.15-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...
The filename of the patch is: sysfs-symlink-export-sysfs_create_link_nowarn.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.15 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.
From foo@baz Wed Mar 28 18:37:51 CEST 2018
From: Grygorii Strashko grygorii.strashko@ti.com Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2018 17:08:34 -0500 Subject: sysfs: symlink: export sysfs_create_link_nowarn()
From: Grygorii Strashko grygorii.strashko@ti.com
[ Upstream commit 2399ac42e762ab25c58420e25359b2921afdc55f ]
The sysfs_create_link_nowarn() is going to be used in phylib framework in subsequent patch which can be built as module. Hence, export sysfs_create_link_nowarn() to avoid build errors.
Cc: Florian Fainelli f.fainelli@gmail.com Cc: Andrew Lunn andrew@lunn.ch Fixes: a3995460491d ("net: phy: Relax error checking on sysfs_create_link()") Signed-off-by: Grygorii Strashko grygorii.strashko@ti.com Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Signed-off-by: David S. Miller davem@davemloft.net Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- fs/sysfs/symlink.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/fs/sysfs/symlink.c +++ b/fs/sysfs/symlink.c @@ -107,6 +107,7 @@ int sysfs_create_link_nowarn(struct kobj { return sysfs_do_create_link(kobj, target, name, 0); } +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sysfs_create_link_nowarn);
/** * sysfs_delete_link - remove symlink in object's directory.
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from grygorii.strashko@ti.com are
queue-4.15/sysfs-symlink-export-sysfs_create_link_nowarn.patch queue-4.15/net-ethernet-ti-cpsw-add-check-for-in-band-mode-setting-with-rgmii-phy-interface.patch queue-4.15/net-phy-relax-error-checking-when-creating-sysfs-link-netdev-phydev.patch