Re: [PATCH 6.12 0000/1202] 6.12.97-rc2 review
From: Matti Vaittinen
Date: Mon Sep 14 2026 - 04:27:44 EST
On 22/07/2026 17:31, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.12.97 release.
There are 1202 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, 24 Jul 2026 14:26:57 +0000.
Anything received after that time might be too late.
Oh, time flies. :) Well, statement understood...
... Still, even though I know I am late - I am seeing our tests failing for stable 6.12.x. Other stables as well as mainline releases and linux-next are passing.
The actual failure seems identical to one discussed here:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/072dde7c-a53c-4525-83ac-57ea38edc0b5@xxxxxxxxx/
I believe above was fixed by Herve.
Bisecting stable points the:
Saravana Kannan <saravanak@xxxxxxxxxx>which matches the issue in discussion.
Revert "treewide: Fix probing of devices in DT overlays"
Maybe the 6.12 stable is missing Herve's latest fix(es)?
As explained in original report, the issue is seen with our out-of-tree device-tree overlay stuff. I have no idea if there is any in-tree stuff impacted but I guess the overlay stuff Geert has in Renesas tree might also be impacted - if it was based on 6.12.
I believe there is an "existing easy fix", in a form of a patch which is already applied to other stables. Unfortunately I lost track of the relevant fixes during the discussion so I can't point the relevant one.
Herve, do you happen to know what might be missing?
I suppose this would be worth fixing because 6.12 is expected to be alive for a while.
Ps. I am not sure if this mail thread is the right place to report issues _after_ the stable is out? I'd appreciate a pointer if there is a better place (for the future reports).
Yours,
-- Matti
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Matti Vaittinen
Linux kernel developer at ROHM Semiconductors
Oulu Finland
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