linux-kernel - Re: Linux 4.9: Reported regressions as of Sunday, 2016-10-30

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Message-ID: <3b39cb73-8cb7-74b4-0a71-6966ac2798d3@leemhuis.info>
Date:   Sun, 6 Nov 2016 14:10:03 +0100
From:   Thorsten Leemhuis <regressions@...mhuis.info>
To:     Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>
Cc:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Subject: Re: Linux 4.9: Reported regressions as of Sunday, 2016-10-30

Lo! On 01.11.2016 09:18, Paul Bolle wrote:
> On Sun, 2016-10-30 at 14:20 +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>> As always: Are you aware of any other regressions? Then please let me
>> know (simply CC regressions@...mhuis.info).
> Do build regressions count?

That's a good question.

> Because I was trying to fix an obscure build issue in arch/mips, choose
> a random configuration that should hit that issue, and promptly ran
> into
> https://lkml.kernel.org/r/<201610301405.K82KqqW0%25fengguang.wu@...el.com>
> The same configuration does build under v4.8, I tested that of course.

I'd say it's a practical problem that users run into and hence it's a
regression. Sure, in this case it hits only those that compile kernels
themselves; but those are users, too, and we don't want to scare them
away with things that suddenly stop working.

IOW: I'll include it in this weeks report.

Ciao, Thorsten