Re: [PATCH 5.8 000/253] 5.8.6-rc2 review

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Thu Sep 03 2020 - 05:30:12 EST


On Wed, Sep 02, 2020 at 09:51:51AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 02, 2020 at 09:49:11AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.8.6 release.
> > There are 253 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 Fri, 04 Sep 2020 07:47:48 +0000.
> > Anything received after that time might be too late.
> >
>
> Build results:
> total: 154 pass: 153 fail: 1
> Failed builds:
> powerpc:allmodconfig
> Qemu test results:
> total: 430 pass: 430 fail: 0
>
> The build failure is:
>
> Inconsistent kallsyms data
> Try make KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS=1 as a workaround
>
> The suggested workaround doesn't help. I see the problem in mainline
> and in -next as well, and it is elusive (meaning it is not easy to
> reproduce). Given that, it is not an immediate concern.
>
> Tested-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks for testing all of these and letting me know.

greg k-h