Re: [PATCH 5.10 000/191] 5.10.201-rc1 review

From: Guenter Roeck
Date: Fri Nov 17 2023 - 10:15:18 EST


Hi,

On 11/16/23 17:57, Dominique Martinet wrote:
Guenter Roeck wrote on Thu, Nov 16, 2023 at 05:13:39PM -0800:
Failed builds:
arm:allmodconfig
arm64:allmodconfig
i386:tools/perf
x86_64:tools/perf

This is with v5.10.200-192-g550b7e1fee20. I am a bit puzzled why others
don't seem to see those problems.

The perf problem was reported by Florian Fainelli, but my current test
build does not include userspace tools as we're not shipping them (and
would rely on $distro packages when I need perf as a user rather than
building it).

Likewise, it looks like neither Linaro nor me build the qcom driver...
I'm building kernels that have been trimmed down for our boards (with
that exact config we're shipping and providing for our customers), and
arm* drivers are especially fractured so it's a bit misleading to see
"arm64 pass", that's just the tip of the actual setup tested.


(Anyway, the main reason for me is mostly that $job is a small company
that cannot afford extensive upstream testing, so I just don't have the
time to do extended tests -- for the same reason we're only supporting
the 5.10 tree so I'm focusing my limited time on just this branch, even
if I'd love to do more.
I'm just taking the stance that some test is better than no test and
report back things we'd need to test before shipping customers a few
weeks later anyway -- thank you for covering more!)


Just to clarify, I wasn't assuming or expecting that _everyone_ would report
those errors. I was just puzzled that I had not seen _any_ reports, especially
since arm:allmodconfig and arm64:allmodconfig both failed to build for me
(and I had somehow missed Florian's perf report).

Thanks,
Guenter