linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5.4 00/50] 5.4.40-rc1 review

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Date:   Mon, 11 May 2020 18:21:48 +0100
From:   Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@...ethink.co.uk>
To:     shuah <shuah@...nel.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        linux@...ck-us.net, patches@...nelci.org,
        lkft-triage@...ts.linaro.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5.4 00/50] 5.4.40-rc1 review

On Mon, 2020-05-11 at 10:35 -0600, shuah wrote:
> On 5/8/20 6:35 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.4.40 release.
> > There are 50 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.
> > 
> > The whole patch series can be found in one patch at:
> > 	https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/stable-review/patch-5.4.40-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-5.4.y
> > and the diffstat can be found below.
> > 
> > thanks,
> > 
> > greg k-h
> > 
> 
> Compiled and booted on my test system. I am seeing the following
> regression in dmesg and with a new emergency message.
> 
> Initramfs unpacking failed: Decoding failed
> 
> I don't know why yet. I will debug and let you know.

At a guess: you upgraded to Ubuntu 20.04, and the default initramfs
compression changed to lz4.  Or something like that.

Ben.

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