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Patch "arm: remove wrong CONFIG_PROC_SYSCTL ifdef" has been added to the 4.11-stable tree

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

arm: remove wrong CONFIG_PROC_SYSCTL ifdef

to the 4.11-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-remove-wrong-config_proc_sysctl-ifdef.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.11 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

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From f70b281b59a871545362a494d99a644153fbbaac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Juri Lelli <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 31 May 2017 17:59:27 +0100
Subject: arm: remove wrong CONFIG_PROC_SYSCTL ifdef

From: Juri Lelli <[email protected]>

commit f70b281b59a871545362a494d99a644153fbbaac upstream.

The sysfs cpu_capacity entry for each CPU has nothing to do with PROC_FS, nor it's in /proc/sys path.

Remove such ifdef.

Cc Russell King <[email protected]>
Reported-and-suggested-by Sudeep Holla <[email protected]>
Fixes 7e5930aaef5d ('ARM: 8622/3: add sysfs cpu_capacity attribute')
---
 arch/arm/kernel/topology.c |    2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
arch/arm/kernel/topology.c +0 -2
@@ -57,7 +57,6 @@ static void set_capacity_scale(unsigned
 	per_cpu(cpu_scale, cpu) = capacity;
 }
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_SYSCTL
 static ssize_t cpu_capacity_show(struct device *dev,
 				 struct device_attribute *attr,
 				 char *buf)
@@ -114,7 +113,6 @@ static int register_cpu_capacity_sysctl(
 	return 0;
 }
 subsys_initcall(register_cpu_capacity_sysctl);
-#endif
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_OF
 struct cpu_efficiency {

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.11/arm-remove-wrong-config_proc_sysctl-ifdef.patch