Re: [PATCH 5.15 000/137] 5.15.137-rc1 review

[Guenter Roeck]

On 10/23/23 11:50, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> CC maz
>
> On Mon, Oct 23, 2023 at 7:17 PM Daniel Díaz <daniel.diaz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Mon, 23 Oct 2023 at 09:11, Daniel Díaz <daniel.diaz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On 23/10/23 4:55 a. m., Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.15.137 release.
> > > > There are 137 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, 25 Oct 2023 10:47:57 +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/v5.x/stable-review/patch-5.15.137-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-5.15.y
> > > > and the diffstat can be found below.
> > > >
> > > > thanks,
> > > >
> > > > greg k-h
> > >
> > > We see lots of errors on Arm 32-bits:
> > >
> > > -----8<-----
> > > /builds/linux/drivers/gpio/gpio-vf610.c:249:11: error: 'IRQCHIP_IMMUTABLE' undeclared here (not in a function); did you mean 'IS_IMMUTABLE'?
> > >     .flags = IRQCHIP_IMMUTABLE | IRQCHIP_MASK_ON_SUSPEND
> > >              ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > >              IS_IMMUTABLE
> > > /builds/linux/drivers/gpio/gpio-vf610.c:251:2: error: 'GPIOCHIP_IRQ_RESOURCE_HELPERS' undeclared here (not in a function)
> > >     GPIOCHIP_IRQ_RESOURCE_HELPERS,
> > >     ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > > /builds/linux/drivers/gpio/gpio-vf610.c:251:2: warning: excess elements in struct initializer
> > > /builds/linux/drivers/gpio/gpio-vf610.c:251:2: note: (near initialization for 'vf610_irqchip')
> > > /builds/linux/drivers/gpio/gpio-vf610.c: In function 'vf610_gpio_probe':
> > > /builds/linux/drivers/gpio/gpio-vf610.c:340:2: error: implicit declaration of function 'gpio_irq_chip_set_chip'; did you mean 'gpiochip_get_data'? [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
> > >     gpio_irq_chip_set_chip(girq, &vf610_irqchip);
> > >     ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > >     gpiochip_get_data
> > > cc1: some warnings being treated as errors
> > > ----->8-----
> >
> > Bisection points to "gpio: vf610: make irq_chip immutable" (upstream
> > commit e6ef4f8ede09f4af7cde000717b349b50bc62576).
>
> IRQCHIP_IMMUTABLE was introduced in commit 6c846d026d490b23 ("gpio:
> Don't fiddle with irqchips marked as immutable") in v5.19.
> Backporting (part of) that is probably not safe.

In this context: What exactly does commit e6ef4f8ede09 fix that makes it
a stable release candidate ?

Outch, I realize I am violating the new "no more than 15 quoted lines"
rule. Sigh.

Guenter