Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 17 Dec 2018 19:20:28 -0500 | From | Sasha Levin <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/7] v4.19-stable randconfig fixes |
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On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 11:10:05PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: >Hi Greg, > >I did some randconfig testing on linux-4.19 arm/arm64/x86. So far I needed >27 patches, most of which are also still needed in mainline Linux. I >had submitted some before, and others were not submitted previously >for some reason. I'll try to get those fixed in mainline and then >make sure we get them into 4.19 as well. > >This series for now contains four patches that did make it into mainline: > >2e6ae11dd0d1 ("slimbus: ngd: mark PM functions as __maybe_unused") >33f49571d750 ("staging: olpc_dcon: add a missing dependency") >0eeec01488da ("scsi: raid_attrs: fix unused variable warning") >11d4afd4ff66 ("sched/pelt: Fix warning and clean up IRQ PELT config") > >Feel free to either cherry-pick those from mainline or apply the >patch from this series, whichever works best for you. > >The other three patches are for warnings in code that got removed in >mainline kernels: > >3e9efc3299dd ("i2c: aspeed: Handle master/slave combined irq events properly") >972910948fb6 ("ARM: dts: qcom: Remove Arrow SD600 eval board") >effec874792f ("drm/msm/dpu: Remove dpu_dbg") > >My feeling was that it's safer to just address the warning by fixing >the code correctly in each of these cases, but if you disagree, >applying the mainline change should work equally well, so decide >for yourself.
Thanks Arnd, I took the series as is.
We really need to discuss how -stable deals with removed code upstream. For some cases, we should probably follow suit and remove it from -stable as well (I'm mostly thinking dodgy code with potential security issues).
-- Thanks, Sasha
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