Re: [PATCH 5.15 000/102] 5.15.136-rc1 review

From: Daniel Díaz
Date: Tue Oct 17 2023 - 13:01:49 EST


Hello!

On Tue, 17 Oct 2023 at 10:29, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[...]
> And yes, I do run newer compilers and libraries, but the rest of the
> kernel builds fine with them (I make sure of that), but given that no
> one seems to care about perf breaking for so long, I just apply patches
> when they come up and don't have conflicts and see if anyone notices any
> difference.
>
> Normally, no one does :)

Just for the record, we stopped building Perf on these older branches
as we agreed with Guenter, for the same reason that you said before:
it fails all the time with a variety of toolchains/architectures. For
now, we're only building/testing Perf on latest stable (6.5) and
latest stable LTS (6.1). We brought that up at the OATS call a couple
of months back.

Greetings!

Daniel Díaz
daniel.diaz@xxxxxxxxxx