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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/4] amba: Export amba_bustype
On Tue, 15 May 2018 14:48:31 +0100
Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@armlinux.org.uk> wrote:

> On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 08:15:19AM -0500, Kim Phillips wrote:
> > On Tue, 15 May 2018 08:59:02 +0200
> > Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org> wrote:
> >
> > > On 8 May 2018 at 21:06, Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@arm.com> wrote:
> > > > This patch is provided in the context of allowing the Coresight driver
> > > > subsystem to be loaded as modules. Coresight uses amba_bus in its call
> > > > to bus_find_device() in of_coresight_get_endpoint_device() when
> > > > searching for a configurable endpoint device. This patch allows
> > > > Coresight to reference amba_bustype when built as a module.
> > >
> > > Sounds like you are fixing a bug, don't your want this to go for
> > > stable and then also add a fixes tag?
> >
> > How do you consider this a bug fix? What commit would the fixes tag
> > reference? The introduction of the amba bus? Not only aren't busses
> > required to export their bus_type, but that commit predates git.
>
> I do not consider it a bug fix (see my reply to Ulf) and I certainly

I agree this isn't a bug fix.

> The only problem which we're aware of is with Coresight, and only then
> when your patches to allow Coresight to be modular are merged. That's

Just to clarify: the Coresight modularization patch depends on this
patch, so this patch is to be merged first.

Cheers,

Kim

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