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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: "Alexis Lothoré" <alexis.lothore@bootlin.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, luca.ceresoli@bootlin.com,
	olivier.benjamin@bootlin.com, thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com
Subject: Re: Backport perf makefile fix to linux-6.6.y
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2025 12:39:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2025070906-john-uncouple-3760@gregkh> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DB7G4ZS920XB.1I7M44B53YY6Y@bootlin.com>

On Wed, Jul 09, 2025 at 12:19:01PM +0200, Alexis Lothoré wrote:
> Hello stable team,
> 
> could you please backport commit 440cf77625e3 ("perf: build: Setup
> PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR for cross compilation") to linux-6.6.y ?
> 
> Its absence prevents some people from building the perf tool in cross-compile
> environment with this kernel. The patch applies cleanly on linux-6.6.y

Is this a regression from older kernels that was broken in 6.6.y, or is
this a new feature?  If a new feature, why not just use perf from a
newer kernel version instead?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2025-07-09 10:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-07-09 10:19 Backport perf makefile fix to linux-6.6.y Alexis Lothoré
2025-07-09 10:39 ` Greg KH [this message]
2025-07-09 13:35   ` Alexis Lothoré
2025-07-09 13:41     ` Greg KH

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