Re: [PATCH 3.18 00/38] 3.18.83-stable review

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-11-20T19:17:18Z

On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 08:25:14AM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 03:48:18PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 06:06:57AM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > > On 11/19/2017 06:29 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.18.83 release.
> > > > There are 38 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 Tue Nov 21 14:29:00 UTC 2017.
> > > > Anything received after that time might be too late.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Build results:
> > > total: 136 pass: 136 fail: 0
> > > Qemu test results:
> > > total: 112 pass: 110 fail: 2
> > > Failed tests:
> > > powerpc:bamboo:44x/bamboo_defconfig
> > > powerpc:bamboo:smpdev:44x/bamboo_defconfig
> > >
> > > Building powerpc:bamboo:44x/bamboo_defconfig ... failed
> > > ------------
> > > Error log:
> > > arch/powerpc/boot/treeboot-akebono.c:37:20: fatal error: libfdt.h: No such file or directory
> > > #include "libfdt.h"
> > > ^
> > > compilation terminated.
> > > make[1]: *** [arch/powerpc/boot/treeboot-akebono.o] Error 1
> > > make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> > > make: *** [zImage] Error 2
> > > ------------
> > > Building powerpc:bamboo:smpdev:44x/bamboo_defconfig ... failed
> > > ------------
> > > Error log:
> > > arch/powerpc/boot/treeboot-currituck.c:35:20: fatal error: libfdt.h: No such file or directory
> > > #include "libfdt.h"
> > > ^
> > > compilation terminated.
> > > make[1]: *** [arch/powerpc/boot/treeboot-currituck.o] Error 1
> > > make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> > > arch/powerpc/boot/treeboot-iss4xx.c:33:20: fatal error: libfdt.h: No such file or directory
> > > #include "libfdt.h"
> > >
> > > Details are available at http://kerneltests.org/builders.
> >
> > This is really odd, nothing was changed around this code at all, is this
> > a new arch/build that previously was not being built?
> >
> This was a flake. Rerun was fine. Updated results:
>
> Build results:
> total: 136 pass: 136 fail: 0
> Qemu test results:
> total: 112 pass: 112 fail: 0
>
> Having said that, building 44x/bamboo_defconfig on its own in 3.18.y (not
> part of the test script) does fail with that error, but that is nothing new.
> I'll look into that if I find the time.

Don't worry too much about it, I doubt anyone cares about that
arch/config for 3.18, so far it seems it is mostly just various ARM
SoCs that are stuck at this old kernel version.

Thanks for running the tests again and letting me know.

greg k-h