linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5.14 000/169] 5.14.15-rc1 review

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Message-ID: <71236fec-39d1-7601-4523-b06ba49b5da3@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Tue, 26 Oct 2021 11:27:40 -0600
From:   Shuah Khan <skhan@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        linux@...ck-us.net, shuah@...nel.org, patches@...nelci.org,
        lkft-triage@...ts.linaro.org, pavel@...x.de, jonathanh@...dia.com,
        f.fainelli@...il.com, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        Shuah Khan <skhan@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5.14 000/169] 5.14.15-rc1 review

On 10/26/21 11:25 AM, Shuah Khan wrote:
> On 10/25/21 1:13 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.14.15 release.
>> There are 169 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, 27 Oct 2021 19:08:09 +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-5.14.15-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-5.14.y
>> and the diffstat can be found below.
>>
>> thanks,
>>
>> greg k-h
>>
> 
> Compiled and booted on my test system. No dmesg regressions.
> 
> Tested-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@...uxfoundation.org>
> 
> Upgrading to Ubuntu 21.10 caused issues with the boot related to
> zstd compression which is the default initramfs.conf for 21.10
> 
> If others run into this:
> 
> Change the default to lz4. I ended up enabling
> CONFIG_DECOMPRESS_ZSTD=y for 5.4 since it has support for ZSTD
> 
> On another note CONFIG_ZSTD_DECOMPRESS and CONFIG_DECOMPRESS_ZSTD
> naming rather confusing.
> 

Please ignore this comment about compression for 5.14

thanks,
-- Shuah