Re: [PATCH 5.10 000/284] 5.10.221-rc2 review

[Frank Scheiner <frank.scheiner@web.de>]

On 15.07.24 13:43, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 12, 2024 at 04:19:39PM +0200, Frank Scheiner wrote:
>> On 12.07.24 15:32, Greg KH wrote:
>>> [...]
>>  From my understanding 31e0721aeabde29371f624f56ce2f403508527a5 should
>> not be merged w/o 8ff059b8531f3b98e14f0461859fc7cdd95823e4, which also
>> seems to be the case for all other stable kernels from linux-5.12.y up.
>>
>> So 8ff059b8531f3b98e14f0461859fc7cdd95823e4 should be added, too, if
>> 31e0721aeabde29371f624f56ce2f403508527a5 stays in.
>
> Ok, thanks, now queued up.

Great! linux-5.10.y is already building fine now again for ia64.

>>> And I thought that ia64 was dead?
>>
>> No, actually it's alive and well - just currently outside of mainline -
>> but still in the stable kernels up to linux-6.6.y and for newer kernels
>> patched back in. If you want to check on our CI ([2]), all current
>> stable kernels build fine for ia64 and run in Ski - but linux-5.10.y
>> currently only because I manually added
>> 8ff059b8531f3b98e14f0461859fc7cdd95823e4 to the list of patches applied
>> by the CI.
>>
>> [2]: https://github.com/linux-ia64/linux-stable-rc/actions/runs/9901808825
>
> Will be interesting to see how long it lasts, good luck!

Thanks! I think we get better and better with each obstacle moved out of
the way.

BTW that seems to have been prophetic by you, because now the
linux-4.19.y build for ia64 is broken. ;-) But we're already on it and
have a trace. I'll report our findings soon. :-)

Cheers,
Frank