Greg KH gregkh@linuxfoundation.org writes:
On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 10:43:47AM +0100, LABBE Corentin wrote:
On Sun, Feb 24, 2019 at 02:54:28PM +0100, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
The patch below was submitted to be applied to the 4.20-stable tree.
I fail to see how this patch meets the stable kernel rules as found at Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst.
I could be totally wrong, and if so, please respond to stable@vger.kernel.org and let me know why this patch should be applied. Otherwise, it is now dropped from my patch queues, never to be seen again.
thanks,
greg k-h
Hello
Without this patch, we cannot boot a defconfig on ARC, and this is critical for testing ARC devices in kernelCI.
But this means you have never been able to boot a defconfig on ARC, right? So this is a new "feature" you are adding :)
Correct, we've never been able to boot an *upstream* defconfig in kernelCI for ARC.
If you wait one more week, all is good, you can do this for 5.0, and when I drop 4.20 in another few weeks, all is fine.
Why this patch is not a real stable patch, it is a strong requirement for testing all future stable release on kernelCI.
Only for 4.20.
And normally kernelci uses a specific configuration for the board it is testing, not defconfig. Or am I mistaken?
We only boot upstream defconfigs, hence the backport request I guess.
Without it, we'll survive. It just means we can only boot v5.1+ on ARC in kernelCI.
Kevin