Re: [PATCH 5.10 00/73] 5.10.213-rc1 review

[Daniel Díaz]

On Mon, 25 Mar 2024 at 00:55, Daniel Díaz <daniel.diaz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> On 13/03/24 10:45 a. m., Sasha Levin wrote:
> > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.10.213 release.
> > There are 73 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 Mar 15 04:46:39 PM UTC 2024.
> > Anything received after that time might be too late.
> >
> > The whole patch series can be found in one patch at:
> >          https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git/patch/?id=linux-5.10.y&id2=v5.10.212
> > or in the git tree and branch at:
> >          git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-5.10.y
> > and the diffstat can be found below.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Sasha
>
> We're seeing regressions while building PowerPC with GCC 8 and 12 with ppc6xx_defconfig:
>
> -----8<-----
>    /builds/linux/drivers/macintosh/via-pmu-backlight.c:22:20: error: 'FB_BACKLIGHT_LEVELS' undeclared here (not in a function)
>       22 | static u8 bl_curve[FB_BACKLIGHT_LEVELS];
>          |                    ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>    In file included from /builds/linux/include/linux/kernel.h:15,
>                     from /builds/linux/include/asm-generic/bug.h:20,
>                     from /builds/linux/arch/powerpc/include/asm/bug.h:109,
>                     from /builds/linux/include/linux/bug.h:5,
>                     from /builds/linux/include/linux/thread_info.h:12,
>                     from /builds/linux/arch/powerpc/include/asm/ptrace.h:264,
>                     from /builds/linux/drivers/macintosh/via-pmu-backlight.c:11:
> ----->8-----
>
> Bisection points to:
>
>    commit ee550f669e91c4cb0c884f38aa915497bc201585
>    Author: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@xxxxxxx>
>    Date:   Wed Mar 6 13:28:20 2024 +0100
>        arch/powerpc: Remove <linux/fb.h> from backlight code
>
>
> Reverting that commit made the build pass again.
>
> Reproducer:
>
>    tuxmake --runtime podman --target-arch powerpc --toolchain gcc-12 --kconfig ppc6xx_defconfig
>
> Reported-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing <lkft@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
>
> Greetings!
>
> Daniel Díaz
> daniel.diaz@xxxxxxxxxx

Apologies for replying to the wrong email here -- it should have been
for 5.10.214-rc1. Naresh took care of relaying the information to the
right place.

-- 
ddiaz