This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled drivers/base/platform.c: don't mark
to the 2.6.39-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: drivers-base-platform.c-don-t-mark.patch and it can be found in the queue-2.6.39 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <sta...@kernel.org> know about it. >From bb2b43fefab723f4a0760146e7bed59d41a50e53 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org> Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 14:44:19 -0700 Subject: drivers/base/platform.c: don't mark platform_device_register_resndata() as __init_or_module MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org> commit bb2b43fefab723f4a0760146e7bed59d41a50e53 upstream. This reverts 737a3bb9416ce2a7c7a4 ("Driver core: move platform device creation helpers to .init.text (if MODULE=n)"). That patch assumed that platform_device_register_resndata() is only ever called from __init code but that isn't true in the case ioctl->drm_ioctl->radeon_cp_init(). Addresses https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35192 Cc: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koe...@pengutronix.de> Reported-by: Anthony Basile <bluen...@gentoo.org> Cc: Greg KH <gre...@suse.de> Cc: David Airlie <airl...@linux.ie> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@suse.de> --- drivers/base/platform.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/base/platform.c +++ b/drivers/base/platform.c @@ -367,7 +367,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(platform_device_unregi * * Returns &struct platform_device pointer on success, or ERR_PTR() on error. */ -struct platform_device *__init_or_module platform_device_register_resndata( +struct platform_device *platform_device_register_resndata( struct device *parent, const char *name, int id, const struct resource *res, unsigned int num, Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from a...@linux-foundation.org are queue-2.6.39/mm-memory-failure.c-fix-page-isolated-count-mismatch.patch queue-2.6.39/mm-fix-negative-commitlimit-when-gigantic-hugepages-are.patch queue-2.6.39/drivers-tty-serial-pch_uart.c-don-t-oops-if.patch queue-2.6.39/drivers-base-platform.c-don-t-mark.patch queue-2.6.39/drivers-misc-lkdtm.c-fix-race-when-crashpoint-is-hit.patch queue-2.6.39/ksm-fix-null-pointer-dereference-in.patch queue-2.6.39/taskstats-don-t-allow-duplicate-entries-in-listener-mode.patch
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