Re: [PATCH 3.14 00/17] 3.14.70-stable review

Christoph Biedl
2016-05-18T05:53:15Z

Greg KH wrote...

> On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 01:10:16AM +0200, Christoph Biedl wrote:
> > Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote...
> >
> > > Responses should be made by Thu May 19 01:13:32 UTC 2016.
> > > Anything received after that time might be too late.
> >
> > Compilation passes again, however the compiled kernel crashes
> > immediately after loading. This happens with a kernel built using gcc5
> > (5.3.1) only, gcc 4.7 or 4.9 result in a fully working one.
> >
> > Since kernel 4.6 built using gcc5 runs on that particular hardware (a
> > very old AMD K6 mainboard), I've tried git reverse bisect which left
> > to d34687ab, and me in some confusion.
>
> Does 3.14.69 work?

Neither (if built using gcc5). So do not delay the 3.14.70 release
because of my report. The thing that puzzles me: Why did nobody else
notice so far? Unless my bisecting went wrong in a very early stage,
all versions up to and including 4.4 are affected.

Will do more testing.

Christoph