Re: [OE-core] [PATCH 0/21] linux-yocto: combined and consolidated pull request

Bruce Ashfield
2025-12-22T13:10:22Z

On Mon, Dec 22, 2025 at 3:29 AM Mathieu Dubois-Briand
<mathieu.dubois-briand@bootlin.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu Dec 18, 2025 at 9:56 PM CET, Bruce Ashfield via lists.openembedded.org wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 18, 2025 at 3:22 PM Bruce Ashfield via
> > lists.openembedded.org
> > <bruce.ashfield=gmail.com@lists.openembedded.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> From: Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield@gmail.com>
> >>
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> As discussed in the weekly engineering call, I'm sending this as
> >> single series even though it crossed boundaries of the repositories.
> >>
> >> I don't have access to meta-yocto-contrib yet, so I haven't pushed
> >> the component parts to contrib branches yet, but will do that for
> >> future pull requests.
> >>
> >> I'm using this as a first run through some things I've cooked up
> >> to coordinate the patches across the repos. The formatting is my
> >> own, so apologies if it isn't clear .. and we'll see if it all
> >>
> >> Now to the series for OE-core:
> >>
> >> - We have stable updates to 6.12
> >> - A kern-tools fix
> >> - Updates to 6.17
> >> - Removal of 6.17
> >> - Introduction of 6.18
> >> - Bump to libc-headers to 6.18
> >>
> >> I've built and booted what I can locally, and I know that the
> >> major architectures work, and are functional with respect to
> >> core features.
> >>
> >> I have more libc-headers testing running against meta-oe and
> >> muslc, so there may be some breakage there and I'll help deal
> >> with that if it happens.
> >>
> >> The update and then removal of 6.17 is on purpose. In case any
> >> one was using it, they should get the latest tested before it
> >> starts to be removed.
> >>
> >> For meta-yocto:
> >>
> >> - removal of any remaining 6.17 references
> >> - introduction of 6.18
> >>
> >> The meta-yocto default changes are obviously REALLY RFC/RFT
> >> there will be issues, but I've provided them anyway to make it
> >> clear that we are going to 6.18 as the new default for all the
> >> variants.
> >>
> >> Once we get 6.18 fully green and the h/w references udpated,
> >> I'll remove 6.12 and 6.16 from master. That isn't in this series
> >> by design.
> >
> >
> > FYI: my extended testing shows a warning in the virtualization
> > fragments. It isn't serious, but will be fixed in incremental patches
> > on the end of this queue.
> >
> > Bruce
> >
>
> Hi Bruce,
>
> Sorry, I was a bit late in testing this.
>
> On my side I also get some issues in building strace, are you aware of
> this?
>
> ERROR: strace-6.17-r0 do_compile: Execution of '/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/genericx86-64/build/build/tmp/work/core2-64-poky-linux/strace/6.17/temp/run.do_compile.3198325' failed with exit code 1
> ...
> | ../../sources/strace-6.17/src/listmount.c: In function 'print_mnt_id_req':
> | ../../sources/strace-6.17/src/listmount.c:39:16: error: 'struct mnt_id_req' has no member named 'spare'
> | 39 | if (req.spare) {
> | | ^
> | In file included from ../../sources/strace-6.17/src/listmount.c:9:
> | ../../sources/strace-6.17/src/print_fields.h:384:37: error: 'struct mnt_id_req' has no member named 'spare'
> | 384 | PRINT_VAL_X((where_).field_); \
> | | ^
> | ../../sources/strace-6.17/src/defs.h:1910:17: note: in definition of macro 'zero_extend_signed_to_ull'
> | 1910 | (sizeof(v) == sizeof(char) ? (unsigned long long) (unsigned char) (v) : \
> | | ^
> | ../../sources/strace-6.17/src/print_fields.h:384:17: note: in expansion of macro 'PRINT_VAL_X'
> | 384 | PRINT_VAL_X((where_).field_); \
> | | ^~~~~~~~~~~
> | ../../sources/strace-6.17/src/listmount.c:41:17: note: in expansion of macro 'PRINT_FIELD_X'
> | 41 | PRINT_FIELD_X(req, spare);
> | | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
> | ../../sources/strace-6.17/src/print_fields.h:384:37: error: 'struct mnt_id_req' has no member named 'spare'
> | 384 | PRINT_VAL_X((where_).field_); \
> | | ^
> ...

I didn't see that, but our strace in OEcore must be just a bit out of date.

I'm off for the next week, but if I have time during the evenings, I'll fix
this up. Otherwise, it will be top of my list when I return.

Bruce

>
> https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/4/builds/2904
> https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/19/builds/2895
> https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/22/builds/2922
> https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/60/builds/2891
>
> Thanks,
> Mathieu
>
> --
> Mathieu Dubois-Briand, Bootlin
> Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
> https://bootlin.com
>

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