Re: linux-next: build failure in the final build

[Ard Biesheuvel]

On Wed, 19 Aug 2026, at 02:49, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 18, 2026 at 09:54:26PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> After merging the  tree, today's linux-next build
>> (arm64 allyesconfig) failed like this:
>> 
>> ld: error: unplaced orphan section `.init.note.gnu.property' from `./drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efi-stub-entry.stub.o'
>> ...
>> ld: error: unplaced orphan section `.init.note.gnu.property' from `./drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/smbios.stub.o'
>> make[3]: *** [/tmp/next/build/scripts/Makefile.vmlinux:72: vmlinux.unstripped] Error 1
>> 
>> Presumably caused by commit
>> 
>>    c19ac4abbd696 (efi/libstub: Remove obsolete .note.gnu.property workaround)
>> 
>> though I did not verify.  I have ignored this for today.
>
> Ah, that commit had an implicit dependency on the previous patch in the
> series, which wasn't merged:
>
>   
> https://lore.kernel.org/0445b20df50894615ada70abb1e6238f33c78a2e.1786768375.git.jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx
>
> Ard, can you rebase and slip that one underneath?
>

I've dropped it for now.