Re: [PATCH 5.14 000/169] 5.14.15-rc1 review

Shuah Khan
2021-10-26T17:27:53Z

On 10/26/21 11:25 AM, Shuah Khan wrote:
> On 10/25/21 1:13 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.14.15 release.
>> There are 169 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 Wed, 27 Oct 2021 19:08:09 +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/v5.x/stable-review/patch-5.14.15-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-5.14.y
>> and the diffstat can be found below.
>>
>> thanks,
>>
>> greg k-h
>>
>
> Compiled and booted on my test system. No dmesg regressions.
>
> Tested-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
>
> Upgrading to Ubuntu 21.10 caused issues with the boot related to
> zstd compression which is the default initramfs.conf for 21.10
>
> If others run into this:
>
> Change the default to lz4. I ended up enabling
> CONFIG_DECOMPRESS_ZSTD=y for 5.4 since it has support for ZSTD
>
> On another note CONFIG_ZSTD_DECOMPRESS and CONFIG_DECOMPRESS_ZSTD
> naming rather confusing.
>

Please ignore this comment about compression for 5.14

thanks,
-- Shuah