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

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-02-05T08:33:49Z

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