linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4.14 000/173] 4.14.72-stable review

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Date:   Wed, 26 Sep 2018 07:30:29 +0200
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Rafael Tinoco <rafael.tinoco@...aro.org>
Cc:     Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        linux@...ck-us.net, shuah@...nel.org, patches@...nelci.org,
        ben.hutchings@...ethink.co.uk, lkft-triage@...ts.linaro.org,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, ohad@...ery.com,
        bjorn.andersson@...aro.org, linux-remoteproc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org,
        Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@...aro.org>,
        Suman Anna <s-anna@...com>,
        Loic Pallardy <loic.pallardy@...com>,
        Arnaud POULIQUEN <arnaud.pouliquen@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.14 000/173] 4.14.72-stable review

On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 12:01:53AM -0300, Rafael Tinoco wrote:
> Greg,
> 
> > > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.14.72 release.
> > > > There are 173 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 Sep 26 11:30:10 UTC 2018.
> > > > Anything received after that time might be too late.
> > > >
> > > > The whole patch series can be found in one patch at:
> > > >     https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/stable-review/patch-4.14.72-rc1.gz
> > > > or in the git tree and branch at:
> > > >     git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-4.14.y
> > > > and the diffstat can be found below.
> > >
> > > -rc2 is out to resolve some reported problems:
> > >       https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/stable-review/patch-4.14.72-rc2.gz
> >
> > -rc2 looks good. There is a problem on dragonboard during boot that was
> > introduced in v4.14.71 that I didn't notice last week. We'll bisect it
> > and report back later this week. dragonboard on the other branches (4.9,
> > 4.18, mainline) looks fine.
> 
> As Dan pointed out, during validation, we have bisected this issue on
> a dragonboard 410c (can't find root device) to the following commit
> for v4.14:
> 
> [1ed3a9307230] rpmsg: core: add support to power domains for devices
> 
> There is an on-going discussion on "[PATCH] rpmsg: core: add support
> to power domains for devices" about this patch having other
> dependencies and breaking something else on v4.14 as well.
> 
> Do you think we could drop this patch, for now, in a possible -rc3 for
> v4.14.72 ? Dragonboards aren't being tested, because of this, since
> v4.14.70. Hopefully it isn't too late for this release =).

I can't "drop" it as it is already in a released kernel, 4.14.71 and
4.18.9.  I can revert it though, and will do so for the next round of
releases after this one.

thanks for the report.

greg k-h