Re: [PATCH] base: soc: Export soc_device_to_device() helper

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Mon Nov 11 2019 - 00:27:45 EST


On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 05:56:09AM +0100, Andreas Färber wrote:
> Use of soc_device_to_device() in driver modules causes a build failure.
> Given that the helper is nicely documented in include/linux/sys_soc.h,
> let's export it as GPL symbol.

I thought we were fixing the soc drivers to not need this. What
happened to that effort? I thought I had patches in my tree (or
someone's tree) that did some of this work already, such that this
symbol isn't needed anymore.

thanks,

greg k-h