From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1C6462749F1 for ; Wed, 9 Jul 2025 10:39:40 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1752057581; cv=none; b=hCwQZvewoybtf6Y/ZsJO2OJCrTNCkzGy6s1zAnyph7FvO0Gt95R3vmeD0236Q63wEz/0pv1ygCG294P/dvGUbUrwrYU6ZzLLs2WIA83ZFuWQ/XAZngfsozVUAyUVuqBbKtCtJKGGzgyGRLHmM1ZzdbweZ4115fOQEfiqQoYaCFU= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1752057581; c=relaxed/simple; bh=TWPjjVwTDG9DdNR/Pmi7LJCmkQWeeFslBLY28yXv2IE=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=sOiLwoVrmbCcERb8OfC1aj0Q09Gdi3GC6BZ9OfMjXEx9SY5AvcpLI1DLiUUuX49eiw7hdvLPT2M+tT83KUok80GG04zqSU5hTUM5i0G9p/uNJtER8toGv24vrPuFkMqo+YNkUhUP0kJpKIqqJyThAaHaSXkDwK6aZnr5VKWd0gM= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b=DNlrtuRE; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b="DNlrtuRE" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 75FBEC4CEF4; Wed, 9 Jul 2025 10:39:40 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1752057580; bh=TWPjjVwTDG9DdNR/Pmi7LJCmkQWeeFslBLY28yXv2IE=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=DNlrtuRE88ljlLi5o+hwt5uPknw19y0s+cVelaibA2LOcKYkli+DGtQEZOF4CTQ0G 4xv2F32zm5CfuiVkIOtrjG9twvpmA+BUDwLI2yz/T9BenbcHacIDFMKPqlZ46xII10 tUINw/CtCgigLUBbFYfS3Y4UPKsHI5BXpo8/PVYw= Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2025 12:39:38 +0200 From: Greg KH To: Alexis =?iso-8859-1?Q?Lothor=E9?= Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, luca.ceresoli@bootlin.com, olivier.benjamin@bootlin.com, thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com Subject: Re: Backport perf makefile fix to linux-6.6.y Message-ID: <2025070906-john-uncouple-3760@gregkh> References: Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: stable@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: On Wed, Jul 09, 2025 at 12:19:01PM +0200, Alexis Lothoré wrote: > Hello stable team, > > could you please backport commit 440cf77625e3 ("perf: build: Setup > PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR for cross compilation") to linux-6.6.y ? > > Its absence prevents some people from building the perf tool in cross-compile > environment with this kernel. The patch applies cleanly on linux-6.6.y Is this a regression from older kernels that was broken in 6.6.y, or is this a new feature? If a new feature, why not just use perf from a newer kernel version instead? thanks, greg k-h