Patch "sysfs: symlink: export sysfs_create_link_nowarn()" has been added to the 4.15-stable tree

Patch "sysfs: symlink: export sysfs_create_link_nowarn()" has been added to the 4.15-stable tree

[gregkh]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    sysfs: symlink: export sysfs_create_link_nowarn()

to the 4.15-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:
     sysfs-symlink-export-sysfs_create_link_nowarn.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.15 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From foo@baz Wed Mar 28 18:37:51 CEST 2018
From: Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko@ti.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2018 17:08:34 -0500
Subject: sysfs: symlink: export sysfs_create_link_nowarn()

From: Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko@ti.com>


[ Upstream commit 2399ac42e762ab25c58420e25359b2921afdc55f ]

The sysfs_create_link_nowarn() is going to be used in phylib framework in
subsequent patch which can be built as module. Hence, export
sysfs_create_link_nowarn() to avoid build errors.

Cc: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Fixes: a3995460491d ("net: phy: Relax error checking on sysfs_create_link()")
Signed-off-by: Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko@ti.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 fs/sysfs/symlink.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/fs/sysfs/symlink.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/symlink.c
@@ -107,6 +107,7 @@ int sysfs_create_link_nowarn(struct kobj
 {
 	return sysfs_do_create_link(kobj, target, name, 0);
 }
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sysfs_create_link_nowarn);
 
 /**
  *	sysfs_delete_link - remove symlink in object's directory.


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from grygorii.strashko@ti.com are

queue-4.15/sysfs-symlink-export-sysfs_create_link_nowarn.patch
queue-4.15/net-ethernet-ti-cpsw-add-check-for-in-band-mode-setting-with-rgmii-phy-interface.patch
queue-4.15/net-phy-relax-error-checking-when-creating-sysfs-link-netdev-phydev.patch