This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled i2c: mux: Avoid potential false error message in i2c_mux_add_adapter to the 5.10-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: i2c-mux-avoid-potential-false-error-message-in-i2c_m.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 76ff1767dea31d1d007810a48eff775dd6556e4c Author: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat Sep 23 23:54:06 2023 +0200 i2c: mux: Avoid potential false error message in i2c_mux_add_adapter [ Upstream commit b13e59e74ff71a1004e0508107e91e9a84fd7388 ] I2C_CLASS_DEPRECATED is a flag and not an actual class. There's nothing speaking against both, parent and child, having I2C_CLASS_DEPRECATED set. Therefore exclude it from the check. Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Peter Rosin <peda@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/i2c/i2c-mux.c b/drivers/i2c/i2c-mux.c index 774507b54b57b..c90cec8d9656d 100644 --- a/drivers/i2c/i2c-mux.c +++ b/drivers/i2c/i2c-mux.c @@ -340,7 +340,7 @@ int i2c_mux_add_adapter(struct i2c_mux_core *muxc, priv->adap.lock_ops = &i2c_parent_lock_ops; /* Sanity check on class */ - if (i2c_mux_parent_classes(parent) & class) + if (i2c_mux_parent_classes(parent) & class & ~I2C_CLASS_DEPRECATED) dev_err(&parent->dev, "Segment %d behind mux can't share classes with ancestors\n", chan_id);