Re: [PATCH 0/7] v4.19-stable randconfig fixes

[Sasha Levin]

On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 11:10:05PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>
> I did some randconfig testing on linux-4.19 arm/arm64/x86. So far I needed
> 27 patches, most of which are also still needed in mainline Linux. I
> had submitted some before, and others were not submitted previously
> for some reason. I'll try to get those fixed in mainline and then
> make sure we get them into 4.19 as well.
>
> This series for now contains four patches that did make it into mainline:
>
> 2e6ae11dd0d1 ("slimbus: ngd: mark PM functions as __maybe_unused")
> 33f49571d750 ("staging: olpc_dcon: add a missing dependency")
> 0eeec01488da ("scsi: raid_attrs: fix unused variable warning")
> 11d4afd4ff66 ("sched/pelt: Fix warning and clean up IRQ PELT config")
>
> Feel free to either cherry-pick those from mainline or apply the
> patch from this series, whichever works best for you.
>
> The other three patches are for warnings in code that got removed in
> mainline kernels:
>
> 3e9efc3299dd ("i2c: aspeed: Handle master/slave combined irq events properly")
> 972910948fb6 ("ARM: dts: qcom: Remove Arrow SD600 eval board")
> effec874792f ("drm/msm/dpu: Remove dpu_dbg")
>
> My feeling was that it's safer to just address the warning by fixing
> the code correctly in each of these cases, but if you disagree,
> applying the mainline change should work equally well, so decide
> for yourself.

Thanks Arnd, I took the series as is.

We really need to discuss how -stable deals with removed code upstream.
For some cases, we should probably follow suit and remove it from
-stable as well (I'm mostly thinking dodgy code with potential security
issues).

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Thanks,
Sasha