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

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

On Thu, Feb 05, 2026 at 01:35:37PM +0100, Peter Schneider wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> Am 05.02.2026 um 09:33 schrieb Greg Kroah-Hartman:
> > On Thu, Feb 05, 2026 at 09:31:30AM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > 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...
> > 
> > Ok, found the offending commit, will push out a -rc2 in a bit with this
> > fixed, thanks for testing!
> > 
> > greg k-h
> 
> I was too tired yesterday evening to investigate my build error and poke
> around deeper, but today I looked into it again, and I found that when I
> revert the two kconfig patches in this RC
> 
> 7c177eca9e7af1f0a56171b7718a1b05aaa0f237 "kconfig: fix static linking of nconf"
> eb5defa1e8284b8b79653beadc92c273c170db7d "kconfig: refactor Makefile to reduce process forks"
> 
> then my build error goes away, the build succeeds and the produced kernel seems to work fine.

Yes, those are the commits I dropped, thanks for verifying.

greg k-h