Re: [PATCH 4.15 00/55] 4.15.1-stable review

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Fri, Feb 02, 2018 at 10:35:19PM -0600, Dan Rue wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 02, 2018 at 05:58:18PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.15.1 release.
> > There are 55 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 Sun Feb  4 14:07:50 UTC 2018.
> > 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-4.15.1-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-4.15.y
> > and the diffstat can be found below.
> 
> Results from Linaroâs test farm.
> 
> No regressions since 4.15 release, but you'll notice high failure counts
> in kselftest. These are because it was the first RC and I ran the tests
> multiple times - first without a skipfile, and then again with a partial
> skipfile. All of the failures look like known issues that we also saw on
> 4.15 release.

Why does kselftest need a "skip list"?  Shouldn't all of the tests that
ship in the kernel tree, pass on that release?  Is anyone looking into
the failures?  That seems like a pretty obvious thing :(

And was anyone testing the -rc releases to catch this before 4.15 came
out?  If not, why not?  I thought you all were testing rc releases
now...

Anyway, thanks for the reports.

thanks,

greg k-h