Re: [PATCH] staging: greybus: replace DEFINE_IDR with DEFINE_XARRAY_ALLOC in uart.c

[Greg KH]

On Wed, Mar 18, 2026 at 03:36:03PM +0100, Johan Hovold wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2026 at 03:20:20PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 17, 2026 at 10:16:51PM +0100, Oskar Ray-Frayssinet wrote:
> > > Replace deprecated DEFINE_IDR and idr_* functions with the modern
> > > DEFINE_XARRAY_ALLOC and xa_* equivalents in the greybus uart driver.
> > 
> > What tool is causing people to want to do this change that I keep
> > rejecting?  Can you please go and fix it?
> 
> It's checkpatch:
> 
> 	WARNING: Deprecated use of 'DEFINE_IDR', prefer 'DEFINE_XARRAY' instead
> 	#70: FILE: drivers/staging/greybus/uart.c:70:
> 	+static DEFINE_IDR(tty_minors);

Ugh, that should be changed to only trigger that warning on a patch, not
on an existing file.

thanks,

greg k-h