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

[Guenter Roeck]

On Wed, Oct 03, 2018 at 12:53:11PM -0500, Rob Herring wrote:
> 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?
> 

I enabled it to improve test coverage for stable releases. This is how
I found the problem in the first place. Are you suggesting that I should
not run DT unit tests for stable release candidates ?

> 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.
> 

Depends if there is a test that can be enabled which hits the problem.

Thanks,
Guenter