Re: [PATCH 3.18 00/21] 3.18.113-stable review

From: Kevin Hilman
Date: Tue Jun 19 2018 - 20:36:24 EST


Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 05:09:11PM -0700, Kevin Hilman wrote:
>> Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>
>> > On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 03:08:12PM -0700, kernelci.org bot wrote:
>> >> stable-rc/linux-3.18.y boot: 52 boots: 28 failed, 18 passed with 1 offline, 5 conflicts (v3.18.112-22-gb0582263e3c9)
>> >>
>> >> Full Boot Summary: https://kernelci.org/boot/all/job/stable-rc/branch/linux-3.18.y/kernel/v3.18.112-22-gb0582263e3c9/
>> >> Full Build Summary: https://kernelci.org/build/stable-rc/branch/linux-3.18.y/kernel/v3.18.112-22-gb0582263e3c9/
>> >>
>> >> Tree: stable-rc
>> >> Branch: linux-3.18.y
>> >> Git Describe: v3.18.112-22-gb0582263e3c9
>> >> Git Commit: b0582263e3c9810fd887ca92d19cb9ff30a4d9f6
>> >> Git URL: http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git
>> >> Tested: 24 unique boards, 12 SoC families, 13 builds out of 183
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> >
>> > That is a lot of new failures, did the whole lab fail, or is this really
>> > a problem in v3.18.112 here?
>>
>> Whole lab failure (more precisely, lab operator failure) ;)
>>
>> gak, I updated the rootfs images to the latest buildroot, which forced
>> me to upgrade the kernel headers used to build the rootfs from v3.10 to
>> v4.4. So I guess it's no surprise that every single board panic'd as
>> soon as it hit userspace.
>>
> I build my root file systems with buildroot, and had a similar problem. My fix
> was to patch buildroot to let me use older linux headers.

Could you share the patch?

I was lazy and just rolled back the buildroot release.

Thanks,

Kevin