Re: [GIT PULL] first round of SCSI updates for the 5.15+ merge window

[Steffen Maier]

On 11/5/21 13:43, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Fri, 2021-11-05 at 13:37 +0100, Steffen Maier wrote:
> > On 11/5/21 13:14, James Bottomley wrote:
> > > a move to register core sysfs files
> > > earlier, which means they're available to KOBJ_ADD processing,
> > > which
> > > necessitates switching all drivers to using attribute groups.
> >
> > I seem to be missing?:
> >
> > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-scsi/163478764102.7011.9375895285870786953.b4-ty@xxxxxxxxxx/t/#mab0eeb4a8d8db95c3ace0013bfef775736e124cb
> > ("scsi: core: Fix early registration of sysfs attributes for
> > scsi_device")
> > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mkp/scsi.git/commit/?h=5.16/scsi-staging&id=3a71f0f7a51259b3cb95d79cac1e19dcc5e89ce9
> > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mkp/scsi.git/commit/?h=5.16/scsi-queue&id=3a71f0f7a51259b3cb95d79cac1e19dcc5e89ce9
>
> We have quite a list of patches that came in just before the merge
> window opened.  They get incubated in linux-next for as long as
> possible and then sent in the final pull request.

I think that would break our CI with Linus' vanilla kernel between when Linus 
merges this and until he merges your final pull request. Daily test fails for 
about a week or so? I tried to avoid that by coming up with a regression fix as 
fast as possible.

We're covered with linux-next already via Martin's for-next.


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