Re: [PATCH v3] mcb: Add missing modpost build support

[Nathan Chancellor]

On Wed, Dec 03, 2025 at 09:07:02AM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 02, 2025 at 01:34:21PM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 02, 2025 at 09:42:00AM +0100, Jose Javier Rodriguez Barbarin wrote:
> > > mcb bus is not prepared to autoload client drivers with the data defined on
> > > the drivers' MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE. modpost cannot access to mcb_table_id
> > > inside MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE so the data declared inside is ignored.
> > > 
> > > Add modpost build support for accessing to the mcb_table_id coded on device
> > > drivers' MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE.
> > > 
> > > Fixes: 3764e82e5150 ("drivers: Introduce MEN Chameleon Bus")
> > > Reviewed-by: Jorge Sanjuan Garcia <dev-jorge.sanjuangarcia@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Signed-off-by: Jose Javier Rodriguez Barbarin <dev-josejavier.rodriguez@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > 
> > Acked-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > We should be able to get this to Linus by 6.19-rc1.
> 
> Why?  What's the rush?

I was going off of Andy's previous comments about getting this into a
6.19-rc release to allow Jose to send the follow up changes for removing
MODULE_ALIAS from the drivers that use mcb_device_id, which are spread
out across the tree.

  https://lore.kernel.org/CAHp75VfhM5GuYY1qUKgBhePDo4oe5k3K1ZDTPbYJNr5NtjVVfQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
  https://lore.kernel.org/aS3YUYtrEn39lUPl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/

That could be -rc2 or -rc3 obviously but -rc1 is objectively the most
compatible base for all maintainer trees.

> It should have been in -next already to get into -rc1.

This seems like a low risk change, maybe even a borderline fix (and it
would still be in -next before it went to Linus). I do not have to push
it that quickly though, I have no strong opinion on the priority of this
change. Another option would be a shared branch after -rc1 is out that
other trees could pull in so that those changes could go into 6.20 and
get proper -next soak time.

Cheers,
Nathan