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SubjectRe: [PATCH 4.19 000/170] 4.19.14-stable review
On Tue, Jan 08, 2019 at 10:09:51AM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 08, 2019 at 06:56:40PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 08, 2019 at 09:25:03AM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jan 07, 2019 at 01:30:27PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.19.14 release.
> > > > There are 170 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 Wed Jan 9 10:43:54 UTC 2019.
> > > > Anything received after that time might be too late.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Still (for v4.19.13-171-gc68ce175c3b8):
> > >
> > > arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_64.c: In function ‘sys_rt_sigreturn’:
> > > arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_64.c:761:21: error: ‘msr’ undeclared
> > >
> > > AFAICS commit 5c784c8414fba ("powerpc/tm: Remove msr_tm_active()") is missing.
> >
> > Breno on this thread just said that this patch should not be applied,
> > and another one will be submitted upstream instead to solve the problem
> > correctly and then we can backport it.
> >
> > So we can live with this build issue for now.
> >
>
> I think you should drop the offending patch in this case. It doesn't make
> sense to keep it - all it accomplishes is to break various builds. What is
> the point of doing that ? Is that somehow better than living with the bug
> it is supposed to fix ?

That's what the developers involved seem to say.

Breno, should I drop the offending patch now, or wait for your fix to
land and then fix up the build then?

thanks,

greg k-h

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