From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751869AbdJRQDo (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Oct 2017 12:03:44 -0400 Received: from ms.lwn.net ([45.79.88.28]:45558 "EHLO ms.lwn.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751529AbdJRQDm (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Oct 2017 12:03:42 -0400 Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2017 10:03:40 -0600 From: Jonathan Corbet To: "Paul E. McKenney" Cc: Randy Dunlap , LKML , "linux-doc@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: rcu kernel-doc issues (4.14-rc1) Message-ID: <20171018100340.7f34aace@lwn.net> In-Reply-To: <20171016202619.GG3521@linux.vnet.ibm.com> References: <20170917044145.GZ3521@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20170917174716.GA3611@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20170917194910.GC3521@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20171016200749.GF3521@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <0ac2ae0e-6e50-e708-9218-6febae9a58c9@infradead.org> <20171016202619.GG3521@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Organization: LWN.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 16 Oct 2017 13:26:19 -0700 "Paul E. McKenney" wrote: > OK, how about if I submit them to the 4.15 merge window, but add the > appropriate -stable tags to get them backported? Yes, these are bugs, > but I cannot in good conscience claim that they are v4.14 regressions. > > But if Jon agrees with you, I will of course create a patch series, > pull request, or whatever and send it along to him. [Sorry for being slow ... $EXCUSES ... ] One could argue that they are indeed a regression; they introduced a bunch of build errors into 4.14. I think it would be better to see it fixed if possible. I don't care that much about how it gets there; Paul, I can send it Linusward if you don't want to. Thanks, jon