Re: [PATCH 4.4 00/44] 4.4.290-rc1 review

[Shuah Khan]

On 10/25/21 1:13 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.290 release.
> There are 44 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 Wed, 27 Oct 2021 19:07:44 +0000.
> Anything received after that time might be too late.
>
> The whole patch series can be found in one patch at:
> 	https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/stable-review/patch-4.4.290-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-4.4.y
> and the diffstat can be found below.
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h

Compiled and booted on my test system. No dmesg regressions.

Tested-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Upgrading to Ubuntu 21.10 caused issues with the boot related to
zstd compression which is the default initramfs.conf for 21.10

If others run into this:

Changing the default to lz4 is the answer for 4.4

thanks,
-- Shuah