linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3.12 00/39] 3.12.53-stable review

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Message-ID: <56A639CE.9010507@suse.cz>
Date:	Mon, 25 Jan 2016 16:05:50 +0100
From:	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
To:	Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>, stable@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	William Dauchy <william@...di.net>, shuah.kh@...sung.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3.12 00/39] 3.12.53-stable review

On 01/25/2016, 03:50 PM, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On 01/25/2016 03:49 AM, Jiri Slaby wrote:
>> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.12.53 release.
>> There are 39 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response
>> to this one.  If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
>> let me know.
>>
>> Responses should be made by Wed Jan 27 12:44:04 CET 2016.
>> Anything received after that time might be too late.
>>
> 
> Early feedback: m68k builds fail due to 'm68k: handle
> pgtable_page_ctor() fail',
> which would also require upstream commit 390f44e2aa2ab ("mm: allow
> pgtable_page_ctor() to fail").

I noticed and pushed a fixed tree without that commit :).

> However, that commit alone doesn't add
> any value;
> it requires additional commits to make sense. I don't know what those are.
> Copying Kirill for advice.

It needs the later rewrite where the function can actually fail.

thanks,
-- 
js
suse labs