Re: Linux 6.18-rc1
From: Michal Swiatkowski
Date: Tue Oct 14 2025 - 10:46:36 EST
On Mon, Oct 13, 2025 at 10:08:22AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 12, 2025 at 02:04:32PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > Two weeks have passed, and 6.18-rc1 has been tagged and pushed out.
> >
> > Things look fairly normal: size-wise this is pretty much right in the
> > middle of the pack, and nothing particular stands out in the shortlog
> > of merges this merge window appended below. About half the diff is
> > drivers, with the res being all over: vfs and filesystems, arch
> > updates (although much of that is actually devicetree stuff, so it's
> > arguably more driver-related), tooling, rust support etc etc.
> >
> > This was one of the good merge windows where I didn't end up having to
> > bisect any particular problem on nay of the machines I was testing.
> > Let's hope that success mostly translates to the bigger picture too.
> >
>
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> powerpc
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> Building powerpc:skiroot_defconfig ... failed
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> Error log:
> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_e610.c: In function 'ixgbe_fwlog_init':
> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_e610.c:3938:40: error: 'struct ixgbe_adapter' has no member named 'ixgbe_dbg_adapter'
> 3938 | .debugfs_root = adapter->ixgbe_dbg_adapter,
>
> struct ixgbe_adapter only provides ixgbe_dbg_adapter if CONFIG_DEBUG_FS=y,
> but commit 641585bc978e0 ("ixgbe: fwlog support for e610") uses it
> unconditionally.
>
> Author: Michal Swiatkowski <michal.swiatkowski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
Sorry, I completely missed that. Thanks for catching it.
The fix is here [1]
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20251014141110.751104-1-michal.swiatkowski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/T/#u
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