Re: [PATCH 5.10 245/530] tty: actually undefine superseded ASYNC flags

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On Wed, May 12, 2021 at 05:17:32PM +0200, Johan Hovold wrote:
> On Wed, May 12, 2021 at 04:45:55PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > From: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > [ Upstream commit d09845e98a05850a8094ea8fd6dd09a8e6824fff ]
> > 
> > Some kernel-internal ASYNC flags have been superseded by tty-port flags
> > and should no longer be used by kernel drivers.
> > 
> > Fix the misspelled "__KERNEL__" compile guards which failed their sole
> > purpose to break out-of-tree drivers that have not yet been updated.
> > 
> > Fixes: 5c0517fefc92 ("tty: core: Undefine ASYNC_* flags superceded by TTY_PORT* flags")
> > Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210407095208.31838-2-johan@xxxxxxxxxx
> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> I don't think this should be backported to any stable tree and the
> stable tag was left out on purpose.

It's about time that userspace gets this right, so this should be fine
as it's something that any out-of-tree code is going to have to get
correct eventually.

thanks,

greg k-h



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