Re: [PATCH 6.6 0000/1226] 6.6.145-rc2 review

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

On Wed, Jul 22, 2026 at 07:25:26PM +0200, Frank Scheiner wrote:
> On 22.07.26 16:33, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.6.145 release.
> > There are 1226 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, 24 Jul 2026 14:31:21 +0000.
> > Anything received after that time might be too late.
> > 
> > [...]
> 
> Our autobuilds for ia64 fail for 6.6.145-rc2 (actually already for
> -rc1 but -rc2 was released before I could respond):
> 
> ```
> drivers/cpufreq/ia64-acpi-cpufreq.c:329:27: error: initialization of 'void (*)(struct cpufreq_policy *)' from incompatible pointer type 'int (*)(struct cpufreq_policy *)' [-Wincompatible-pointer-types]
>   329 |         .exit           = acpi_cpufreq_cpu_exit,
>       |                           ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> drivers/cpufreq/ia64-acpi-cpufreq.c:329:27: note: (near initialization for 'acpi_cpufreq_driver.exit')
> ```
> 
> See [1].
> 
> [1]: https://github.com/linux-ia64/linux-stable-rc/actions/runs/29932232437/job/88968683064#step:8:3100
> 
> This is due to the addition of an upstream change to 
> drivers/cpufreq/[...]` ([2]). As this change was introduced after 
> v6.6, it didn't change the ia64 specific driver that is still present
> for linux-6.6.y.
> 
> [2]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=b4b1ddc9dfe997a5f492fa3a36487f8e7a5de30d
> 
> In our fork of Linux post v6.6 we carry a replay of b4b1ddc that makes
> the corresponding changes also for ia64. This is available on [3] (and
> also attached to this message) and fixes the build for me.
> 
> [3]: https://github.com/linux-ia64/linux-ia64/commit/a4085ca68e49f49f962ddff46a901ff3468574b8.patch
> 
> Can this be included for linux-6.6.y, so it continues to build for
> ia64 as is?

Sure, I'll queue it up.  Does anyone still actually use ia64 anymore?  I
thought those systems were long dead.

thanks,

greg k-h