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Subject: Re: Patch "Kbuild: always define endianess in kconfig.h" has been
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On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 05:14:04PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 5:09 PM,  <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> 
> > All of the above are caused by include/asm-generic/qrwlock_types.h
> > failing to include asm/byteorder.h after commit e0d02285f16e
> > ("locking/qrwlock: Use 'struct qrwlock' instead of 'struct __qrwlock'")
> > in linux-4.15.
> >
> > Similar bugs may or may not exist in older kernels as well, but there is
> > no easy way to test those with link-time optimizations, and kernels
> > before 4.14 are harder to fix because they don't have Babu's patch
> > series
> 
> As I wrote in the changelog, it's probably not a good idea to have this
> backported to 4.9 or earlier, please drop it.

Oops, missed that, now dropped, thanks.

greg k-h