Re: [PATCH 4.4 00/23] 4.4.285-rc1 review

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-09-25T11:45:31Z

On Fri, Sep 24, 2021 at 08:50:21AM -0500, Daniel Díaz wrote:
> Hello!
>
> On 9/24/21 7:43 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.285 release.
> > There are 23 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 Sun, 26 Sep 2021 12:43:20 +0000.
> > 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/v4.x/stable-review/patch-4.4.285-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-4.4.y
> > and the diffstat can be found below.
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > greg k-h
>
> Regressions detected.
>
> While building mxs_defconfig for arm, the following error was encountered:
>
> /builds/linux/arch/arm/mach-mxs/mach-mxs.c:285:26: warning: duplicate 'const' declaration specifier [-Wduplicate-decl-specifier]
> 285 | static const struct gpio const tx28_gpios[] __initconst = {
> | ^~~~~
> /builds/linux/drivers/pwm/pwm-mxs.c: In function 'mxs_pwm_probe':
> /builds/linux/drivers/pwm/pwm-mxs.c:164:24: error: implicit declaration of function 'dev_err_probe'; did you mean 'device_reprobe'? [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
> 164 | return dev_err_probe(&pdev->dev, ret, "failed to reset PWM\n");
> | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
> | device_reprobe
> cc1: some warnings being treated as errors
> make[3]: *** [/builds/linux/scripts/Makefile.build:280: drivers/pwm/pwm-mxs.o] Error 1
>
> This is also seen in other branches (from 4.4 to 5.4). To reproduce this build locally:
>
> tuxmake \
> --target-arch=arm \
> --kconfig=mxs_defconfig \
> --toolchain=gcc-11 \
> --runtime=podman \
> config default kernel xipkernel modules dtbs dtbs-legacy debugkernel headers

Now dropped from all 4.4 - 5.4 kernels, thanks! I'll push out a -rc2
soon with all of these fixed up...

greg k-h