[3.8.y.z extended stable] Patch "staging: speakup: Prefix externally-visible symbols" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

On Mon, 2014-03-31 at 12:38 -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 11:48:12AM -0700, Kamal Mostafa wrote:
> > This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled
> > 
> >     staging: speakup: Prefix externally-visible symbols
> > 
> > to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.y.z extended stable tree 
> > which can be found at:
> > 
> >  http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.8.y-queue
> > 
> > This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.8.13.21.
> > 
> > If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
> > reply to this email.
> > 
> > For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see
> > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > -Kamal
> > 
> > ------
> > 
> > >From f9bf384cc96218b4c93ccbabbd1e15e63e8ffb6c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org>
> > Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2013 02:37:40 +0100
> > Subject: staging: speakup: Prefix externally-visible symbols
> > 
> > commit ca2beaf84d9678c12b17d92623f0e90829d6ca13 upstream.
> > 
> > This prefixes all externally-visible symbols of speakup with "spk_".
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
> > [ kamal: 3.8-stable prereq to avoid namespace collision (e.g. set_mask_bits) ]
> > Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
> 
> Why is this a stable patch?  Why is it needed?  What other code is
> breaking without it?
> 
> greg k-h
> 


This stable patch breaks without it:

  00a1a05 ext4: atomically set inode->i_flags in ext4_set_inode_flags()

because 00a1a05 introduces a new macro in include/linux/bitops.h called
"set_mask_bits".

 -Kamal