From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from youngberry.canonical.com ([91.189.89.112]:36749 "EHLO youngberry.canonical.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751026AbcBKULy (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Feb 2016 15:11:54 -0500 Message-ID: <1455221508.24361.23.camel@fourier> Subject: Re: [3.19.y-ckt stable][dropping] Patch "powerpc: Simplify module TOC handling" From: Kamal Mostafa To: Alan Modra Cc: Michael Ellerman , kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com, Sasha Levin , stable Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2016 12:11:48 -0800 In-Reply-To: <1455134004.8525.12.camel@fourier> References: <1455057708-5329-1-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> <20160209231930.GA11459@bubble.grove.modra.org> <1455134004.8525.12.camel@fourier> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: > > On Tue, Feb 09, 2016 at 02:41:48PM -0800, Kamal Mostafa wrote: > > > This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled > > > powerpc: Simplify module TOC handling > > > to the linux-3.19.y-queue branch of the 3.19.y-ckt extended stable tree > On Wed, 2016-02-10 at 09:49 +1030, Alan Modra wrote: > > Please also add this followup patch by Anton: > > https://build.opensuse.org/package/view_file/Base:System/kmod/depmod-Ignore_PowerPC64_ABIv2_.TOC.symbol.patch > > depmod: Ignore PowerPC64 ABIv2 .TOC. symbol On Wed, 2016-02-10 at 11:53 -0800, Kamal Mostafa wrote: > That ("depmod: Ignore PowerPC64 ABIv2 .TOC. symbol") is a patch to > 'kmod' which is not part of the kernel source tree. So I can't include > that patch in a stable kernel release -- each distro's kmod package > would have to do that. Okay, I now realize that the stable kernel patch ("powerpc: Simplify module TOC handling") will break the ppc64 build for hosts that don't have that depmod patch. So, pending any further discussion here, I'm going to drop this from 4.2 and 3.19 -stable after all: c153693d powerpc: Simplify module TOC handling Sasha, note that you have this queued-up for 4.1 and 3.18 -stable. You might consider dropping it also. -Kamal