Re: [PATCH] mtd: spi-nor: include mtd.h header for struct mtd_info definition

From: Brian Norris
Date: Fri Nov 27 2015 - 17:33:49 EST


On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 10:25:55AM +0100, RafaÅ MiÅecki wrote:
> On 26 November 2015 at 09:05, RafaÅ MiÅecki <zajec5@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > So far struct spi_nor was using just a pointer to struct mtd_info so it
> > wasn't needed to have it fully defined there. After recent change we
> > embed whole struct so we need to include a proper header.

Good catch.

> > Fixes: 1976367173a4 ("mtd: spi-nor: embed struct mtd_info within struct spi_nor")

I'm not 100% sure, but I thought I recall the -stable folks picking up
for-linus commits just based on the 'Fixes:' tags. I feel like that
isn't always ideal, though.

> > Signed-off-by: RafaÅ MiÅecki <zajec5@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> This may be worth taking as a fix for 4.4. However I'm not aware of
> any upstream driver failing to build because of this.

I don't see why it would need rushed out. All users of spi-nor.h
currently include mtd.h first. So there are no build failures because of
it.

Regards,
Brian
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