Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the mm-hotfixes tree

David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-04-21T14:39:59Z

On 4/21/26 16:28, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2026 at 07:17:01AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> On Tue, 21 Apr 2026 15:42:29 +0200 "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org> wrote:
>
>
>>> I think Andrew uses the hotfixes tree as the base for the -unstable
>>> trees. So anything that ends up in there gets fast-tracked into -next.
>>> Not good :(
>
>> Always been this way. The expectation is that a hotfix is small,
>> time-sensitive and fixes something which is broken in linux-next. It's
>> exceedingly rare for a hotfix to break the build!
>
>> I'll drop this patch.
>
> Thanks. David, to be clear none of this is much more than a minor
> annoyance

Right, and I want you to have as little such annoyances as possible :)

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Cheers,

David