This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled rtc: sun6i: Disable the build as a module to the 4.10-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: rtc-sun6i-disable-the-build-as-a-module.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 3753941475ae6501dcd1e41832bd0e6c35247d6a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2017 11:41:46 +0100 Subject: rtc: sun6i: Disable the build as a module From: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 3753941475ae6501dcd1e41832bd0e6c35247d6a upstream. Since we have to provide the clock very early on, the RTC driver cannot be built as a module. Make sure that won't happen. Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/rtc/Kconfig | 2 +- drivers/rtc/rtc-sun6i.c | 7 +------ 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/rtc/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/rtc/Kconfig @@ -1434,7 +1434,7 @@ config RTC_DRV_SUN4V based RTC on SUN4V systems. config RTC_DRV_SUN6I - tristate "Allwinner A31 RTC" + bool "Allwinner A31 RTC" default MACH_SUN6I || MACH_SUN8I || COMPILE_TEST depends on ARCH_SUNXI help --- a/drivers/rtc/rtc-sun6i.c +++ b/drivers/rtc/rtc-sun6i.c @@ -439,9 +439,4 @@ static struct platform_driver sun6i_rtc_ .of_match_table = sun6i_rtc_dt_ids, }, }; - -module_platform_driver(sun6i_rtc_driver); - -MODULE_DESCRIPTION("sun6i RTC driver"); -MODULE_AUTHOR("Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@xxxxxxxx>"); -MODULE_LICENSE("GPL"); +builtin_platform_driver(sun6i_rtc_driver); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from maxime.ripard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.10/rtc-sun6i-disable-the-build-as-a-module.patch queue-4.10/rtc-sun6i-add-some-locking.patch queue-4.10/rtc-sun6i-switch-to-the-external-oscillator.patch