Re: [PATCH 4.18 000/228] 4.18.12-stable review

[Rob Herring]

On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 12:24 PM Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Oct 03, 2018 at 09:25:39AM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 03, 2018 at 05:59:09AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > > On 10/02/2018 06:21 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.18.12 release.
> > > > There are 228 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 Thu Oct  4 13:24:08 UTC 2018.
> > > > Anything received after that time might be too late.
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Build results:
> > >     total: 137 pass: 137 fail: 0
> > > Qemu test results:
> > >     total: 321 pass: 320 fail: 1
> > > Failed tests:
> > >     powerpc:g3beige:ppc_book3s_defconfig:nosmp:ide:rootfs
> >
> > What is the status of that powerpc failure fix?  What's the odds it can
> > get into mainline soon?
> >
>
> The fix has been -next for about a week.
>
> da08d8cb8cfc of: unittest: Disable interrupt node tests for old world MAC systems
>
> You'll have to ask Rob (copied) if he plans to send a pull request before
> the next commit window opens.

I wasn't planning to as it's just for the unittest and has been that
way for how long? Why's the unittest enabled for a defconfig anyways?

There was another g3beige fix (e54192b48da7 of: fix phandle cache
creation for DTs with no phandles) which is tagged for stable. Not
sure if qemu would hit the issue though.

Rob