Re: [PATCH v2] drm: import DMA_BUF module namespace

[Thomas Zimmermann]

Hi

Am 31.10.21 um 03:21 schrieb Stephen Rothwell:
> Hi Thomas,
>
> On Fri, 29 Oct 2021 20:51:52 +0200 Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Am 27.10.21 um 23:25 schrieb Marcel Ziswiler:
> > > From: Marcel Ziswiler <marcel.ziswiler@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > Today's -next fails building arm64 defconfig as follows:
> > >
> > > ERROR: modpost: module drm_cma_helper uses symbol dma_buf_vunmap from
> > >    namespace DMA_BUF, but does not import it.
> > > ERROR: modpost: module drm_cma_helper uses symbol dma_buf_vmap from
> > >    namespace DMA_BUF, but does not import it.
> > >
> > > Reported-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing <lkft@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Fixes: commit 4b2b5e142ff4 ("drm: Move GEM memory managers into modules")
> > > Signed-off-by: Marcel Ziswiler <marcel.ziswiler@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > I added this fix into drm-misc-next. Thanks!
> >
> > However, I had to import linux-next while doing so. 'Git am' did a
> > 3-way merge, which may result in a conflict when the fix reaches
> > linux-next again. I also updated the commit description.
>
> You cannot merge linux-next into any tree, sorry.  It rebases every day
> (and so do several of the included trees).

No no, don't worry. I meant 'import' as in 'git remote add linux-next'. 
I was actually complaining that the provided fix was not against a DRM tree.

Best regards
Thomas

> Your fix patch should be sent to Greg KH and Arnd as the build failure
> is introduced in the char-misc tree.

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