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SubjectRe: [PATCH 5.5 00/65] 5.5.11-rc1 review
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On 3/19/20 7:59 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 07:44:33AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>> On 3/19/20 6:03 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>>> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.5.11 release.
>>> There are 65 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response
>>> to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
>>> let me know.
>>>
>>> Responses should be made by Sat, 21 Mar 2020 12:37:04 +0000.
>>> Anything received after that time might be too late.
>>>
>>
>> arm:davinci_all_defconfig fails to build.
>>
>> include/linux/gpio/driver.h: In function 'gpiochip_populate_parent_fwspec_twocell':
>> include/linux/gpio/driver.h:552:1: error: no return statement in function returning non-void [-Werror=return-type]
>> 552 | }
>>
>> The problem is caused by commit 8db6a5905e98 ("gpiolib: Add support for the
>> irqdomain which doesn't use irq_fwspec as arg") which is missing its fix,
>> commit 9c6722d85e922 ("gpio: Fix the no return statement warning"). That one
>> is missing a Fixes: tag, providing a good example why such tags are desirable.
>
> Thanks for letting me know, I've now dropped that patch (others
> complained about it for other reasons) and will push out a -rc2 with
> that fix.
>

I did wonder why the offending patch was included, but then I figured that
I lost the "we apply too many patches to stable releases" battle, and I didn't
want to re-litigate it.

Guenter

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