Re: [PATCH 6.18 0000/1518] 6.18.52-rc1 review
From: Greg KH
Date: Mon Sep 14 2026 - 05:39:48 EST
On Sun, Sep 13, 2026 at 06:05:31AM +0800, Wentao Guan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > Am 12.09.2026 um 08:36 schrieb Greg Kroah-Hartman:
> > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.18.52 release.
> > > There are 1518 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.
> >
> > Builds, boots and seems to works on my 2-socket Ivy Bridge Xeon E5-2697v2 server.
> > However, I do see the same strange dmesg warnings that I see in 6.12.110-rc1:
> >
> > [ 2.397237] Driver 'sr' needs updating - please use bus_type methods
> > ...
> > [ 84.031323] Driver 'ses' needs updating - please use bus_type methods
> >
> > And again, these warning are new in this rc, they did not appear in 6.18.51.
>
> Thanks for your report, i see the warning is related to the commit series:
> ("scsi: core: sysfs: Make use of bus callbacks")
> ... As it message describe ...
> .probe(), .remove() and .shutdown() to eventually remove these. Until
> all SCSI drivers are converted, this results in a runtime warning about
> the drivers needing an update because there is a bus probe function and
> a driver probe function. The in-tree drivers are fixed by the following
> commits.
> ...
Yeah, that's a mess, I'll go drop this from 6.18 and 6.12 queues for
now, thanks for the review!
greg k-h