linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4.4 000/312] 4.4.223-rc1 review

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Date:   Fri, 8 May 2020 06:54:11 -0700
From:   Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     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 4.4 000/312] 4.4.223-rc1 review

On 5/8/20 6:44 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Fri, May 08, 2020 at 06:37:56AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>> On 5/8/20 5:29 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>>> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.223 release.
>>> There are 312 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 Sun, 10 May 2020 12:29:44 +0000.
>>> Anything received after that time might be too late.
>>>
>>
>> This is not a complete list of errors.
> 
> Yeah, I knew this was going to be a rough one.  I was hoping the "early
> warning" messages from Linaro would have caught most of these, oh well
> :(
> 

To be fair, I had noticed the errors yesterday. I just thought this was
so bad that it looked like a stray (bad) push to me, and I didn't send
feedback. Maybe I should always send feedback if I see errors prior to
an -rc release. I don't want to spam people with noise, so I am not sure.
Any thoughts on that ?

Guenter