From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Masashi Honma <masashi.honma@gmail.com>, backports@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Failed to backport from from Linux 4.4 drivers to Linux 3.10.108
Date: Tue, 08 May 2018 11:09:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1525770549.14830.1.camel@sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <149bc44e-f521-cf4a-397a-c8e42d00081b@gmail.com> (sfid-20180508_050515_355323_48A52193)
On Tue, 2018-05-08 at 12:05 +0900, Masashi Honma wrote:
> I am trying to backport from Linux 4.4
This will probably not work unless you use an old backports git tree
snapshot.
> The gentree.py command resulted in these messages.
> ----
> Get original source files from git ...
> Applying patches from patches to /home/honma/git/linux-stable/backports/ ...
> Failed to process SmPL patch
> collateral-evolutions/network/0027-genl-const/genl-const.cocci
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "./gentree.py", line 1091, in <module>
> ret = _main()
> File "./gentree.py", line 724, in _main
> logwrite=logwrite)
> File "./gentree.py", line 906, in process
> apply_patches(args, "backport", source_dir, 'patches',
> bpid.target_dir, logwrite)
> File "./gentree.py", line 605, in apply_patches
> raise Exception('SmPL patch failed')
> Exception: SmPL patch failed
Then again, this shouldn't happen.
> Is this caused by my invalid procedure ?
> If so, please tell me right way.
No, looks fine - perhaps your spatch version isn't right? What version
do you have, and what does it say if you run
mkdir /tmp/xyz && spatch --sp-file .../genl-const.cocci --dir /tmp/xyz
or something like that?
johannes
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Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-05-08 3:05 Failed to backport from from Linux 4.4 drivers to Linux 3.10.108 Masashi Honma
2018-05-08 9:09 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2018-05-08 8:53 ` Masashi Honma
2018-05-08 9:08 ` Johannes Berg
2018-05-08 21:42 ` Masashi Honma
2018-05-09 7:21 ` Masashi Honma
2018-05-09 7:24 ` Johannes Berg
2018-05-09 7:54 ` Johannes Berg
2018-05-09 8:07 ` Masashi Honma
2018-05-09 8:12 ` Johannes Berg
2018-05-09 8:51 ` Masashi Honma
2018-05-09 9:03 ` Johannes Berg
2018-05-09 9:16 ` Masashi Honma
2018-05-09 9:24 ` Masashi Honma
2018-05-09 9:25 ` Johannes Berg
2018-05-09 14:19 ` Steve deRosier
2018-05-09 18:49 ` Arend van Spriel
2018-05-09 19:27 ` Johannes Berg
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