Re: [PATCH 6.1 000/280] 6.1.162-rc1 review

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, Feb 04, 2026 at 11:17:38PM +0100, Peter Schneider wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> Am 04.02.2026 um 15:36 schrieb Greg Kroah-Hartman:
> > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.1.162 release.
> > There are 280 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 Fri, 06 Feb 2026 14:38:23 +0000.
> > Anything received after that time might be too late.
> 
> It seems that this time, I cannot even build this RC. When I run "make
> menuconfig" I get a big serious of warning and error messages; something
> seems to be really messed up here...
> 
> 
> root@linus:/usr/src/linux-stable-rc# vim .config
> root@linus:/usr/src/linux-stable-rc# make menuconfig
> scripts/kconfig/Makefile:215: Warnung: Das Musterrezept hat das Peer-Ziel „scripts/kconfig/mconf-bin“ nicht aktualisiert.
>   HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/mconf.o
>   HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/checklist.o
>   HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/inputbox.o
>   HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/menubox.o
>   HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/textbox.o
>   HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/util.o
>   HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/yesno.o
>   HOSTLD  scripts/kconfig/mconf
> /usr/bin/ld: scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/yesno.o: warning: relocation against `acs_map' in read-only section `.text'
> /usr/bin/ld: scripts/kconfig/mconf.o: in function `show_help':
> mconf.c:(.text+0xa1b): undefined reference to `stdscr'
> /usr/bin/ld: mconf.c:(.text+0xa20): undefined reference to `getmaxx'
> /usr/bin/ld: scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/checklist.o: in function `print_arrows':
> checklist.c:(.text+0x2c): undefined reference to `wmove'

<snip>

Ick, yes, I can reproduce this myself here, something is odd.  Let me
track it down...

thanks,

greg k-h