This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled clocksource/drivers/ixp4xx: remove __init from ixp4xx_timer_setup() to the 5.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: clocksource-drivers-ixp4xx-remove-__init-from-ixp4xx_timer_setup.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From dbcfea91daaf046ac6a398cf79b272a1119148e6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2022 11:55:42 +0200 Subject: clocksource/drivers/ixp4xx: remove __init from ixp4xx_timer_setup() From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ixp4xx_timer_setup is exported, and so can not be an __init function. Remove the __init marking as the build system is rightfully claiming this is an error in older kernels. This is fixed "properly" in commit 41929c9f628b ("clocksource/drivers/ixp4xx: Drop boardfile probe path") but that can not be backported to older kernels as the reworking of the IXP4xx codebase is not suitable for stable releases. Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/clocksource/timer-ixp4xx.c | 5 ++--- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/clocksource/timer-ixp4xx.c +++ b/drivers/clocksource/timer-ixp4xx.c @@ -245,9 +245,8 @@ static __init int ixp4xx_timer_register( * @timer_irq: Linux IRQ number for the timer * @timer_freq: Fixed frequency of the timer */ -void __init ixp4xx_timer_setup(resource_size_t timerbase, - int timer_irq, - unsigned int timer_freq) +void ixp4xx_timer_setup(resource_size_t timerbase, int timer_irq, + unsigned int timer_freq) { void __iomem *base; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-5.4/clocksource-drivers-ixp4xx-remove-__init-from-ixp4xx_timer_setup.patch queue-5.4/drm-remove-drm_fb_helper_modinit.patch