Re: [PATCH 5.2 000/162] 5.2.11-stable review

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-08-28T15:52:56Z

On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 10:47:18AM -0500, Dan Rue wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 05:16:08PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 10:30:09AM +0530, Naresh Kamboju wrote:
> > > On Tue, 27 Aug 2019 at 13:30, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> > > <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.2.11 release.
> > > > There are 162 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 Thu 29 Aug 2019 07:25:02 AM UTC.
> > > > Anything received after that time might be too late.
> > > >
> > > > The whole patch series can be found in one patch at:
> > > > https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/stable-review/patch-5.2.11-rc1.gz
> > > > or in the git tree and branch at:
> > > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-5.2.y
> > > > and the diffstat can be found below.
> > > >
> > > > thanks,
> > > >
> > > > greg k-h
> > >
> > > Results from Linaro’s test farm.
> > > No regressions on arm64, arm, x86_64, and i386.
> >
> > Thanks for testing all of these and letting us know.
> >
> > Also, how did you all not catch the things that the redhat ci system was
> > catching that caused us to add another networking aptch?
>
> Hi Greg -
>
> I'll follow up with them off list. That said, I expect different CI
> setups to find different issues - that's the point, after all. It would
> be bad if we all ran the exact same things, and found the exact same
> things, because then we'd also miss the exact same things. In the macro
> sense, there is a lot to test, and I would rather see CI teams go after
> areas that are weak, rather than areas that are well covered.

I totally agree, but here we actually have a known failure (for once!)
so it would be nice to see why the very large test suite that you all
run missed this.

thanks,

greg k-h