linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3.2 000/164] 3.2.70-rc1 review

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Message-ID: <1447549923.17039.26.camel@decadent.org.uk>
Date:	Sun, 15 Nov 2015 01:12:03 +0000
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	stable@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, Phil Jensen <pjensen@...rnote.com>,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3.2 000/164] 3.2.70-rc1 review

On Sun, 2015-08-02 at 21:24 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On 08/02/2015 02:49 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > On Sat, 2015-08-01 at 19:23 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > > On 08/01/2015 05:02 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.2.70 release.
> > > > There are 164 patches in this series, which will be posted as responses
> > > > to this one.  If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
> > > > let me know.
> > > > 
> > > > Responses should be made by Wed Aug 05 23:00:00 UTC 2015.
> > > > Anything received after that time might be too late.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Build results:
> > > 	> > > > total: 96 pass: 96 fail: 0
> > > Qemu test results:
> > > 	> > > > total: 22 pass: 22 fail: 0
> > > 
> > > Details are available at http://server.roeck-us.net:8010/builders.
> > 
> > Thanks.  I was checking there as I went along, which is why I added
> > patches 158-160.  (It looks like you turned on some new config options
> > for those architectures recently, as the bugs those fix don't seem to
> > be triggered by earlier patches.)
> > 
> 
> Hi Ben,
> 
> I added several 'allnoconfig' and 'allmodconfig' builds. At the same time,
> I changed the approach on how known failures are handled; those are now added
> to an exception list which won't be built in the first place.
> 
> The current exception list for builds in 3.2 is:
> 
> 	> alpha:allnoconfig
> 	> arm:allnoconfig
> 	> arm:allmodconfig
> 	> avr32:allnoconfig
>          m68k:allnoconfig
> 	> microblaze:allnoconfig
> 	> mips:allmodconfig
>          openrisc:allnoconfig
> 	> parisc:allnoconfig
> 	> sparc32:allmodconfig
>          xtensa:defconfig
> 	> xtensa:allmodconfig
> 	> xtensa:allnoconfig

I would be interested to get the arm and mips allmodconfig builds
working if it's not too hard.

> and for qemu tests:
> 
> 	   powerpc:qemu_virtex440_defconfig

I don't even know what this is.

> 	   arm:qemu_arm_vexpress_defconfig:vexpress-a15
>          arm:multi_v7_defconfig:vexpress-a9
>          arm:multi_v7_defconfig:vexpress-a15

I don't think 3.2 has any support either for ARM multiplatform, or
vexpress-a15 (arch/arm/mach-vexpress/Kconfig only mentions A9).

> There may be more as I am adding more builds.
> 
> I didn't expect you to fix any of those. If you are, let me know,
> and I'll drop the build/qemu exceptions.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
                                                           - Albert Einstein
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