Re: [PATCH 4.19 00/41] 4.19.310-rc1 review

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Sat, Mar 30, 2024 at 10:19:56AM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 19, 2024 at 07:24:37AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > On 3/16/24 13:57, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > > On 3/13/24 10:03, Sasha Levin wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.19.310 release.
> > > > There are 41 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response
> > > > to this one.  If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
> > > > let me know.
> > > > 
> > > > Responses should be made by Fri Mar 15 05:04:34 PM UTC 2024.
> > > > Anything received after that time might be too late.
> > > > 
> > > > The whole patch series can be found in one patch at:
> > > >          https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git/patch/?id=linux-4.19.y&id2=v4.19.309
> > > > or in the git tree and branch at:
> > > >          git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-4.19.y
> > > > and the diffstat can be found below.
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Sasha
> > > > 
> > > > -------------
> > > > Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:
> > > > 
> > > > Arnd Bergmann (1):
> > > >    y2038: rusage: use __kernel_old_timeval
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Guess this wasn't build tested on alpha, making it unbuildable on v4.19.y.
> > > 
> > > Building alpha:defconfig ... failed
> > > --------------
> > > Error log:
> > > arch/alpha/kernel/osf_sys.c: In function '__do_sys_old_adjtimex':
> > > arch/alpha/kernel/osf_sys.c:1274:43: error: passing argument 2 of 'put_tv_to_tv32' from incompatible pointer type
> > > 
> > 
> > Following up on this, I now dropped build and boot testing of 'alpha'
> > targets for v4.19.y.
> 
> Ok, let me go unwind this and try to fix this up in the next set of 4.19
> stable -rc updates...

I tried, and it's just too messy.  Given that alpha really is a dead
architecture, and 4.19.y is only going to be around for a few more
months, and that the 2-3 alpha users out there can move to 5.4 (and
really should not be using 4.19 anyway), I'm just going to leave this
as-is (i.e. broken.)

thanks,

greg k-h