Re: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] clocksource: Make negative motion detection more robust" failed to apply to 6.12-stable tree

[Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>]

On Thu, Dec 12 2024 at 14:03, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
> The patch below does not apply to the 6.12-stable tree.
> If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
> tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
> id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.
>
> To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:
>
> git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-6.12.y
> git checkout FETCH_HEAD
> git cherry-pick -x 76031d9536a076bf023bedbdb1b4317fc801dd67
> # <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
> git commit -s
> git send-email --to '<stable@vger.kernel.org>' --in-reply-to '2024121203-griminess-blah-4e97@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 6.12.y' HEAD^..
>
> Possible dependencies:
>

There clearly is a dependency:

> From 76031d9536a076bf023bedbdb1b4317fc801dd67 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2024 11:16:30 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] clocksource: Make negative motion detection more robust

<snip>

> Fixes: c163e40af9b2 ("timekeeping: Always check for negative motion")

This was merged in the 6.13 merge window into Linus tree and not
backported to 6.12.y according to my clone of the stable tree.

AI went sideways?

But I don't think these two commits are necessarily stable material,
though I don't have a strong opinion on it. If c163e40af9b2 is
backported, then it has it's own large dependency chain on pre 6.10
kernels...

Thanks,

        tglx