Re: [PATCH 4.9 00/41] 4.9.37-stable review

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 03:31:08PM -0700, Krister Johansen wrote:
> Hey Greg,
> 
> On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 07:10:33PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.37 release.
> > There are 41 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 Jul 12 17:10:36 UTC 2017.
> > Anything received after that time might be too late.
> > 
> > The whole patch series can be found in one patch at:
> > 	kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/stable-review/patch-4.9.37-rc1.gz
> > or in the git tree and branch at:
> >   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-4.9.y
> > and the diffstat can be found below.
> > 
> > thanks,
> > 
> > greg k-h
> 
> 
> In 4.9.36 there were some patches to tools/perf that got pulled in that
> break that part of build.  It looks like a couple of dependent patches
> were omitted.  I don't see these patches included in 4.9.37.  Is it
> possible to get those included so that tools/perf builds again?
> 
> Here's a link to the prior thread:
> 
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/7/5/537

I was hoping that you would get a response from the perf developers,
which is why I didn't queue those patches up.  I'll do so for the next
release after this one if I don't hear otherwise.

thanks,

greg k-h