Patch "tty: provide tty_name() even without CONFIG_TTY" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

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

tty: provide tty_name() even without CONFIG_TTY

to the 4.4-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:
tty-provide-tty_name-even-without-config_tty.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

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

From: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2016 11:56:04 +0200
Subject: tty: provide tty_name() even without CONFIG_TTY

From: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>

commit 188e3c5cd2b672620291e64a21f1598fe91e40b6 upstream.

The audit subsystem just started printing the name of the tty, but that causes a build failure when CONFIG_TTY is disabled:

kernel/built-in.o: In function `audit_log_task_info':
memremap.c:(.text+0x5e34c): undefined reference to tty_name' kernel/built-in.o: In function audit_set_loginuid':
memremap.c:(.text+0x63b34): undefined reference to `tty_name'

This adds tty_name() to the list of functions that are provided as trivial stubs in that configuration.

---
 include/linux/tty.h |    4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

@@ -372,6 +372,7 @@ extern void proc_clear_tty(struct task_s
 extern struct tty_struct *get_current_tty(void);
 /* tty_io.c */
 extern int __init tty_init(void);
+extern const char *tty_name(const struct tty_struct *tty);
 #else
 static inline void console_init(void)
 { }

@@ -392,6 +393,8 @@ static inline struct tty_struct *get_cur
 /* tty_io.c */
 static inline int __init tty_init(void)
 { return 0; }
+static inline const char *tty_name(const struct tty_struct *tty)
+{ return "(none)"; }
 #endif
 
 extern void tty_write_flush(struct tty_struct *);

@@ -420,7 +423,6 @@ static inline struct tty_struct *tty_kre
 
 extern int tty_paranoia_check(struct tty_struct *tty, struct inode *inode,
 			      const char *routine);
-extern const char *tty_name(const struct tty_struct *tty);
 extern void tty_wait_until_sent(struct tty_struct *tty, long timeout);
 extern int __tty_check_change(struct tty_struct *tty, int sig);
 extern int tty_check_change(struct tty_struct *tty);

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

queue-4.4/fs-compat-remove-warning-from-compatible_ioctl.patch queue-4.4/tty-provide-tty_name-even-without-config_tty.patch