Re: Patch "ARM: shmobile: defconfig: Restore debugfs support" has been added to the 5.4-stable tree

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On Thu, Jan 09, 2020 at 11:09:18PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Hi Sasha,
> 
> On Thu, Jan 9, 2020 at 9:38 PM Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
> >
> >     ARM: shmobile: defconfig: Restore debugfs support
> >
> > 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:
> >      arm-shmobile-defconfig-restore-debugfs-support.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.
> >
> >
> >
> > commit b56e3b1467eba2ba55bca05e3c8697b23304f12b
> > Author: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Date:   Mon Dec 9 11:13:27 2019 +0100
> >
> >     ARM: shmobile: defconfig: Restore debugfs support
> >
> >     [ Upstream commit fa2cdb1762d15f701b83efa60b04f0d04e71bf89 ]
> >
> >     Since commit 0e4a459f56c32d3e ("tracing: Remove unnecessary DEBUG_FS
> >     dependency"), CONFIG_DEBUG_FS is no longer auto-enabled.  This breaks
> 
> AFAIK, that commit is not present in v5.4, and hasn't been backported yet.
> So I don't think there is a need to backport this and all other fixes restoring
> debugfs support in post-v5.4 kernels.
> 
> BTW, I noticed you plan to backport this "fix" not just to v5.4, but also
> to v4.19?

I've dropped this from both queues now, thanks.

greg k-h



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