Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Linux 4.9: Reported regressions as of Sunday, 2016-10-30 | From | Thorsten Leemhuis <> | Date | Sun, 6 Nov 2016 14:10:03 +0100 |
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Lo! On 01.11.2016 09:18, Paul Bolle wrote: > On Sun, 2016-10-30 at 14:20 +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: >> As always: Are you aware of any other regressions? Then please let me >> know (simply CC regressions@leemhuis.info). > Do build regressions count?
That's a good question.
> Because I was trying to fix an obscure build issue in arch/mips, choose > a random configuration that should hit that issue, and promptly ran > into > https://lkml.kernel.org/r/<201610301405.K82KqqW0%25fengguang.wu@intel.com> > The same configuration does build under v4.8, I tested that of course.
I'd say it's a practical problem that users run into and hence it's a regression. Sure, in this case it hits only those that compile kernels themselves; but those are users, too, and we don't want to scare them away with things that suddenly stop working.
IOW: I'll include it in this weeks report.
Ciao, Thorsten
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