Re: Linux 6.10-rc1

[Guenter Roeck]

On Sun, May 26, 2024 at 03:31:45PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Ok, the merge window is over, and 6.10-rc1 is tagged and pushed out.
> 
> This seems to be a regular-sized release, maybe even slightly on the
> smaller side. All the stats look fairly normal, but "normal" obviously
> means "much too big to post the shortlog", so below is - as always -
> just my "merge log" that gives an overview of who I've merged from
> with just the barest of descriptions.
> 
> We don't have any new filesystems, and the xfs online repair work
> means that the bcachefs fixes aren't even the biggest filesystem
> change any more. But all of that is dwarfed by all the usual driver
> updates (and, as is tradition, GPU drivers are in a massive lead, with
> networking a distant second and everything else is relatively small).
> 
> But we do have all the usual architecture updates, core cleanups and
> fixes, tooling and documentation updates.
> 
> Please - let the testing commence,
> 

>From [1]:

Build results:
	total: 158 pass: 149 fail: 9
Failed builds:
	arm:allmodconfig
	csky:allmodconfig
	i386:allyesconfig
	i386:allmodconfig
	mips:allmodconfig
	openrisc:allmodconfig
	parisc:allmodconfig
	powerpc:ppc32_allmodconfig
	xtensa:allmodconfig
Qemu test results:
	total: 470 pass: 466 fail: 4
Failed tests:
	m68k:mcf5208evb:m5208:m5208evb_defconfig:initrd
	riscv:sifive_u:defconfig:net=default:initrd
	riscv:sifive_u:defconfig:sd:net=default:rootfs
	riscv:sifive_u:defconfig:mtd32:net=default:rootfs
Unit test results:
	pass: 228437 fail: 0

The problems seen in those tests are all fixed with the following patches.

9ea60fe541a0 powerpc: Limit ARCH_HAS_KERNEL_FPU_SUPPORT to PPC64
005cc05a58df clk: sifive: Do not register clkdevs for PRCI clocks
71a1fd19a06c sysfs: Unbreak the build around sysfs_bin_attr_simple_read()
d304cefdad3a drm/nouveau/nvif: Avoid build error due to potential integer overflows
2afea78e811e scsi: mpi3mr: Use proper format specifier in mpi3mr_sas_port_add()

For anyone in details, those patches are available in the 'fixes' branch
of [2].

Guenter

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[1] https://kerneltests.org/builders
[2] git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/groeck/linux-staging.git