Re: Linux 5.19-rc6

[Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>]

Hi Russell,

On Fri, Jul 15, 2022 at 12:34 AM Russell Currey <ruscur@russell.cc> wrote:
>
> Hi Linus,
>
> On Wed, 2022-07-13 at 14:32 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 13, 2022 at 2:01 PM Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > If you want to apply Guenter's patch original patch:
> > > https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/490184/
> > > That's fine with me.
> >
> > Honestly, by this time I feel that it's too little, too late.
> >
> > The ppc people apparently didn't care at all about the fact that this
> > driver didn't compile.
> >
> > At least Michael Ellerman and Daniel Axtens were cc'd on that thread
> > with the proposed fix originally.
> >
> > I don't see any replies from ppc people as to why it happened, even
> > though apparently a bog-standard "make allmodconfig" just doesn't
> > build.
>
> I believe Michael Ellerman has been on holiday for some time, and
> Daniel Axtens no longer works on powerpc (and wasn't the one that
> submitted the patch, it was submitted by Paul Mackerras, who wasn't on
> CC).
>
> The proposed fix didn't get sent to linuxppc-dev either, so it's
> unlikely many ppc people knew about it.
>
> We certainly should have noticed allmodconfig was broken, and should
> have more than just Michael keeping an eye on all his automated builds.

Not sure if I have added the correct people in my another mail, but
thats also ppc allmodconfig with gcc-12.
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/Ys%2FaDKZNhhsENH9S@debian/



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Regards
Sudip