Re: [PATCH 5.4 000/120] 5.4.215-rc1 review

[Marc Zyngier]

On Mon, 26 Sep 2022 10:13:31 -0400,
Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 26 Sept 2022 at 16:00, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.4.215 release.
> > There are 120 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response
> > to this one.  If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
> > let me know.
> >
> > Responses should be made by Wed, 28 Sep 2022 10:07:26 +0000.
> > Anything received after that time might be too late.
> >
> > The whole patch series can be found in one patch at:
> >         https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/stable-review/patch-5.4.215-rc1.gz
> > or in the git tree and branch at:
> >         git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-5.4.y
> > and the diffstat can be found below.
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > greg k-h
> 
> Following build warnings / errors noticed on arm on stable-rc 5.4.
> 
> Reported-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing <lkft@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Regressions found on arm:
> 
>    - build-gcc-8-ixp4xx_defconfig
>    - build-gcc-11-ixp4xx_defconfig
>    - build-gcc-12-ixp4xx_defconfig
>    - build-gcc-9-ixp4xx_defconfig
>    - build-gcc-10-ixp4xx_defconfig

Colour me surprised. [1] explained why this was a bad idea...

	M.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAMRc=Md9JKdW8wmbun_0_1y2RQbck7q=vzOkdw6n+FBgpf0h8w@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/

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