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Subject: Re: [REGRESSION] Linux kernel 6.12.75 fails to compile with -Werror=implicit-function-declaration
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2026 21:57:52 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aapCsLtZvNpJgrP5@laps> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6f42cb43-c281-4565-b968-afc34502b9fb@googlemail.com>
On Thu, Mar 05, 2026 at 11:06:06PM +0100, Peter Schneider wrote:
>This gives me some vibes of "It compiles, so let's ship it", which is
>a questionable level of QA you might expect from some (shady)
>commercial companies, but I think the Linux community should (and
>can!) do better.
I really want to highlight this part.
There are no IMA tests I'm aware of (outside of builds with CONFIG_IMA=y).
For that matter, we only see a minority of subsystems actually testing stable
releases.
This is something we've been working to improve for a while, but we're quite
far from that goal.
Sadly your vibes are somewhat grounded in reality.
>Sorry if that sounds too harsh. I don't mean it in a harsh way, but
>only as constructive criticism. I know Greg and you have an extremely
>complex job with maintaining the stable branches, and normally all
>works very well and smooth, because both of you are doing a hell of an
>excellent job! But on occasion when a release was bumpy like this one,
>we should look back and ask why, and what could have done better, and
>how we can improve in the future.
This is not, and I appreciate the feedback. Thank you.
--
Thanks,
Sasha
prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-03-06 2:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-04 17:35 [REGRESSION] Linux kernel 6.12.75 fails to compile with -Werror=implicit-function-declaration Aditya Garg
2026-03-04 17:52 ` [SEVERE] " Aditya Garg
2026-03-04 18:04 ` Aditya Garg
2026-03-04 19:00 ` Peter Schneider
2026-03-04 19:37 ` Peter Schneider
2026-03-05 17:40 ` Brett A C Sheffield
2026-03-05 20:21 ` Sasha Levin
2026-03-05 21:57 ` Brett A C Sheffield
2026-03-06 2:51 ` Sasha Levin
2026-03-05 22:06 ` Peter Schneider
2026-03-05 22:46 ` Harshit Mogalapalli
2026-03-06 0:23 ` Peter Schneider
2026-03-06 2:57 ` Sasha Levin [this message]
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