Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] driver core: Export device_is_dependent() to modules

[Linus Walleij]

On Mon, Nov 27, 2023 at 7:20 PM Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[Maxime]
> > So, a committer just applied this to drm-misc-fixes without your
> > approval.

That was me, mea culpa.
I learned a lesson. Or two.

> Wait, why exactly is this needed?  Nothing outside of the driver core
> should be needing this function, it shouldn't be public at all (I missed
> that before.)
>
> So please, revert it for now, let's figure out why DRM thinks this is
> needed for it's devices, and yet no other bus/subsystem does.

I'm preparing a revert series back to the original patch causing
the issue so we can clear the original bug out of the way, take
a step back and fix this properly.

Yours,
Linus Walleij