Re: [PATCH 6.1 000/259] 6.1.56-rc1 review

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Fri Oct 06 2023 - 06:13:04 EST


On Thu, Oct 05, 2023 at 08:17:48AM +0800, Wang Yugui wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.1.56 release.
> > There are 259 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 Fri, 06 Oct 2023 17:51:12 +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/v6.x/stable-review/patch-6.1.56-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-6.1.y
> > and the diffstat can be found below.
>
> This 6.1.56-rc1 failed to build on rhel7 with dev-tool-set 8, but 6.1.55 works.
>
> Build error message:
> gcc: fatal error: no input files
> make[3]: *** [pmu-events/Build:33: pmu-events/pmu-events.o] Error 1
>
> After the revert of 'perf-build-update-build-rule-for-generated-files.patch'
> the build works again.

Offending patch dropped, thanks.

greg k-h