Re: [PATCH 6.1 000/280] 6.1.162-rc1 review

Peter Schneider
2026-02-05T12:35:40Z

Hi Greg,

Am 05.02.2026 um 09:33 schrieb Greg Kroah-Hartman:
> On Thu, Feb 05, 2026 at 09:31:30AM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 04, 2026 at 11:17:38PM +0100, Peter Schneider wrote:
>>> Hi Greg,
>>>
>>> Am 04.02.2026 um 15:36 schrieb Greg Kroah-Hartman:
>>>> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.1.162 release.
>>>> There are 280 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, 06 Feb 2026 14:38:23 +0000.
>>>> Anything received after that time might be too late.
>>>
>>> It seems that this time, I cannot even build this RC. When I run "make
>>> menuconfig" I get a big serious of warning and error messages; something
>>> seems to be really messed up here...
>>>
>>>
>>> root@linus:/usr/src/linux-stable-rc# vim .config
>>> root@linus:/usr/src/linux-stable-rc# make menuconfig
>>> scripts/kconfig/Makefile:215: Warnung: Das Musterrezept hat das Peer-Ziel „scripts/kconfig/mconf-bin“ nicht aktualisiert.
>>> HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/mconf.o
>>> HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/checklist.o
>>> HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/inputbox.o
>>> HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/menubox.o
>>> HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/textbox.o
>>> HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/util.o
>>> HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/yesno.o
>>> HOSTLD scripts/kconfig/mconf
>>> /usr/bin/ld: scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/yesno.o: warning: relocation against `acs_map' in read-only section `.text'
>>> /usr/bin/ld: scripts/kconfig/mconf.o: in function `show_help':
>>> mconf.c:(.text+0xa1b): undefined reference to `stdscr'
>>> /usr/bin/ld: mconf.c:(.text+0xa20): undefined reference to `getmaxx'
>>> /usr/bin/ld: scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/checklist.o: in function `print_arrows':
>>> checklist.c:(.text+0x2c): undefined reference to `wmove'
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>> Ick, yes, I can reproduce this myself here, something is odd. Let me
>> track it down...
>
> Ok, found the offending commit, will push out a -rc2 in a bit with this
> fixed, thanks for testing!
>
> greg k-h

I was too tired yesterday evening to investigate my build error and poke around deeper, but today I looked into it
again, and I found that when I revert the two kconfig patches in this RC

7c177eca9e7af1f0a56171b7718a1b05aaa0f237 "kconfig: fix static linking of nconf"
eb5defa1e8284b8b79653beadc92c273c170db7d "kconfig: refactor Makefile to reduce process forks"

then my build error goes away, the build succeeds and the produced kernel seems to work fine.

Beste Grüße,
Peter Schneider

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