linux-kernel - Re: Linux 4.18-rc6

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Date:   Mon, 23 Jul 2018 16:17:22 -0700
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
Cc:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 4.18-rc6

On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 2:23 PM Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net> wrote:
>
> >
> > Martin - can we just remove the
> >
> >          select HAVE_GCC_PLUGINS
> >
> > from the s390 Kconfig file (or perhaps add "if BROKEN" or something to
> > disable it).
> >
> > Because if it's not getting fixed, it shouldn't be exposed.
> >
> The problem only affects 4.18 - the code has been rearranged in -next.
> Only, in my builders, I can't disable a flag for individual releases,
> so I just disabled it completely for s390.

Well, I'm not going to release a 4.18 with a known problem, so in 4.18
this *will* be disabled if it's not fixed.

The fact that it might be fixed in linux-next is entirely immaterial
to the release of 4.18.

                   Linus