Re: [PATCH 5.4 57/60] modpost: fix section mismatch check for exported init/exit sections

From: Nick Desaulniers
Date: Wed Jun 29 2022 - 12:59:43 EST


On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 10:38 PM Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 12:11:50PM -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> > Maybe let's check with Christoph if it's ok to backport bf22c9ec39da
> > to stable 5.10 and 5.4?
>
> I'd be fine with that, but in the end it is something for the relevant
> maintainers to decide.

$ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f drivers/gpu/drm/drm_crtc_helper_internal.h
Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (maintainer:DRM
DRIVERS AND MISC GPU PATCHES)
Maxime Ripard <mripard@xxxxxxxxxx> (maintainer:DRM DRIVERS AND MISC GPU PATCHES)
Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@xxxxxxx> (maintainer:DRM DRIVERS AND
MISC GPU PATCHES)
David Airlie <airlied@xxxxxxxx> (maintainer:DRM DRIVERS)
Daniel Vetter <daniel@xxxxxxxx> (maintainer:DRM DRIVERS)
dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (open list:DRM DRIVERS)
linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (open list)

Maarten, Maxime, Thomas, David, or Daniel,
Is it ok to backport
commit bf22c9ec39da ("drm: remove drm_fb_helper_modinit")
to 5.10.y and 5.4.y to fix the modpost warning reported by Florian in
https://lore.kernel.org/stable/6cd16364-f0cd-b3f3-248f-4b6d585d05ef@xxxxxxxxx/ ?
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Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers