Re: mips builds failing in v3.18.38 and v4.1.29

[Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>]

On Mon, Aug 01, 2016 at 11:37:31AM -0400, Levin, Alexander wrote:
> On 08/01/2016 11:29 AM, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > Hi Sasha,
> > 
> > On Mon, Aug 01, 2016 at 10:58:31AM -0400, Levin, Alexander wrote:
> > [ ... ]
> >>>
> >>> Offending commit is 1dd0964204277108e ("MIPS: Reserve nosave data for hibernation").
> >>> It fixes a bug which does not exist in 3.18 / 4.1, in turn causing all mips builds in 3.18
> >>> and 4.1 to fail.
> >>>
> >>> Guenter
> >>>
> >>
> >> I'm sorry, it mush have gotten lost in the email switch. I'll revert
> >> that commit for the next stable release and hurry that up.
> >>
> > 
> > It would be great if you can also address the sparc64 problem
> > I reported in my second e-mail.
> 
> Yup, I reverted that commit as well.
> 
> > Any chance you can add linux@roeck-us.net to your release candidate
> > announcement e-mails ? This would help making sure that I don't miss
> > a release.
> 
> I actually talked with Greg about it a while back and decided to stop
> doing "release candidates" because I never ended up getting any reports
> on those. I keep getting lots of feedback on the "Added to the x.y
> stable kernel" mails so I rely on those for now.
> 
If you didn't get feedback from me, it was because I never got
those e-mails ;-).

> I'll add that mail to the cover letter I send out when I do those, which
> is essentially equivalent (and actually gives more time) if that sounds
> ok to you.
> 
Sure, that would help.

Thanks,
Guenter