Re: [PATCH 6.6 000/341] 6.6.48-rc1 review

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Wed, Aug 28, 2024 at 04:45:12PM +0200, Alexander Lobakin wrote:
> From: Wang Yugui <wangyugui@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2024 22:35:27 +0800
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> >> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.6.48 release.
> >> There are 341 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 Thu, 29 Aug 2024 14:37:36 +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/v6.x/stable-review/patch-6.6.48-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-6.6.y
> >> and the diffstat can be found below.
> > 
> > We need a patch
> > 	upsteam:  0a04ff09bcc39e0044190ffe9f00f998f13647c
> > 	From: Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@xxxxxxxxx>
> > 	Subject: tools: move alignment-related macros to new <linux/align.h>
> > to fix the new build error.
> > 	tools/include/linux/bitmap.h: In function 'bitmap_zero':
> > 	tools/include/linux/bitmap.h:28:29: warning: implicit declaration of
> > 	function 'ALIGN' [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
> >  #define bitmap_size(nbits) (ALIGN(nbits, BITS_PER_LONG) / BITS_PER_BYTE)
> 
> Patch 29/341 and its dependencies 26-28 is an improvement, not a fix. Do
> we need it in the LTS kernels? I'm fine with that, just asking as
> usually LTSes only receive critical fixes :>

It's to fix a build issue due to other commits wanting to use ALIGN in
tools/

I've queued it up now, thanks!

greg k-h