linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4.16 000/196] 4.16.4-stable review

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Date:   Sun, 22 Apr 2018 13:25:01 -0700
From:   Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com>
To:     Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, shuah@...nel.org, patches@...nelci.org,
        ben.hutchings@...ethink.co.uk, lkft-triage@...ts.linaro.org,
        stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.16 000/196] 4.16.4-stable review

On Sun, Apr 22, 2018 at 01:13:53PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On 04/22/2018 06:50 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.16.4 release.
> > There are 196 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 Tue Apr 24 13:50:16 UTC 2018.
> > Anything received after that time might be too late.
> > 
> 
> 
> Build results:
> 	total: 143 pass: 141 fail: 2
> Failed builds:
> 	powerpc:defconfig
> 	powerpc:allmodconfig
> Qemu test results:
> 	total: 139 pass: 133 fail: 6
> Failed tests:
> 	powerpc:mac99:ppc64_book3s_defconfig:initrd:nosmp
> 	powerpc:mac99:ppc64_book3s_defconfig:initrd:smp4
> 	powerpc:mac99:ppc64_book3s_defconfig:rootfs:smp4
> 	powerpc:pseries:pseries_defconfig:initrd
> 	powerpc:pseries:pseries_defconfig:rootfs
> 	powerpc:powernv:powernv_defconfig:initrd
> 
> arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal-nvram.c: In function 'opal_nvram_write':
> arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal-nvram.c:61:11: error: 'OPAL_BUSY_DELAY_MS'
> 
> This problem affects _all_ pending releases.
> 
> Guenter

Looks like 3b8070335f75 ("powerpc/powernv: Fix OPAL NVRAM driver
OPAL_BUSY loops") has a dependency commit that was missed: 34dd25de9fe3
("powerpc/powernv: define a standard delay for OPAL_BUSY type retry
loops").

Nathan