Re: [PATCH 1/7 5.10.y] tracing: Define the is_signed_type() macro once

From: Greg KH

Date: Sun Sep 21 2025 - 13:30:20 EST


On Wed, Sep 17, 2025 at 10:37:31AM +0000, Farber, Eliav wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 16, 2025 at 09:22:53PM +0000, Eliav Farber wrote:
> > > From: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@xxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > commit 92d23c6e94157739b997cacce151586a0d07bb8a upstream.
> >
> > This is only in 6.1, and not other trees, why is it needed here?
>
> It exists also in 5.15:
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/include/linux/overflow.h?h=v5.15.193&id=ed6e37e30826b12572636c6bbfe6319233690c90

What? Ugh, duplicate commit ids. What a mess :(

Fair enough, I can take this, and I want to, but as this really causes a
problem with our scripts, perhaps use the git id that is references in
the other kernel versions as well so that things don't look totally
wrong?

thanks,

greg k-h