From: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
torvalds@linux-foundation.org, stable@vger.kernel.org,
lwn@lwn.net, Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Subject: Re: Linux 4.17.7
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2018 04:11:26 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180717111126.GA24208@flashbox> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180717105929.GA18343@kroah.com>
On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 12:59:29PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> NOTE, this kernel release is broken for i386 systems. If you are
> running such a machine, do NOT update to this release, you will not be
> able to boot properly.
>
> I did this release anyway with this known problem as there is a fix in
> here for x86-64 systems that was nasty to track down and was affecting
> people. Given that the huge majority of systems are NOT i386, I felt
> this was a safe release to do at this point in time.
>
> Once the proper fix for i386 systems has been accepted into Linus's tree
> (it has been posted already), I will pick it up and do a new 4.17.y
> release so that users of those systems can update.
>
Just a heads up, it was picked up by Linux yesterday but it wasn't
tagged for stable: d1b47a7c9efc ("mm: don't do zero_resv_unavail if
memmap is not allocated").
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-07-17 11:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-07-17 10:59 Linux 4.17.7 Greg KH
2018-07-17 10:59 ` Greg KH
2018-07-17 11:11 ` Nathan Chancellor [this message]
2018-07-17 11:20 ` Greg KH
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