linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 6.5 000/285] 6.5.4-rc1 review

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Message-ID: <bae1a61f-ab9d-2560-9c70-e09092363467@roeck-us.net>
Date:   Mon, 18 Sep 2023 08:17:43 -0700
From:   Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Jon Hunter <jonathanh@...dia.com>
Cc:     stable@...r.kernel.org, patches@...ts.linux.dev,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, shuah@...nel.org, patches@...nelci.org,
        lkft-triage@...ts.linaro.org, pavel@...x.de, f.fainelli@...il.com,
        sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com, srw@...dewatkins.net, rwarsow@....de,
        conor@...nel.org, Sameer Pujar <spujar@...dia.com>,
        "linux-tegra@...r.kernel.org" <linux-tegra@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6.5 000/285] 6.5.4-rc1 review

On 9/18/23 05:56, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 01:52:10PM +0100, Jon Hunter wrote:
>> Hi Greg,
>>
>> On 17/09/2023 20:10, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>>> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.5.4 release.
>>> There are 285 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 Tue, 19 Sep 2023 19:10:04 +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/v6.x/stable-review/patch-6.5.4-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-6.5.y
>>> and the diffstat can be found below.
>>>
>>> thanks,
>>>
>>> greg k-h
>>>
>>> -------------
>>> Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:
>>
>> ...
>>
>>> Sameer Pujar <spujar@...dia.com>
>>>       arm64: tegra: Update AHUB clock parent and rate
>>
>>
>> Unfortunately, the above change is causing a regression in one of our audio
>> tests and we are looking into why this is.
>>
>> Can we drop this from stable for now?
> 
> Is it also a problem in Linus's tree?  Keeping bug-compatible is always
> good :)
> 

Sorry, no, it isn't, especially in the context of at the same time suggesting
that everyone should start using the most recent stable release immediately
(instead of, say, selectively picking security patches).

I don't think Tegra users would be happy if their audio stopped working,
and it seems unlikely that they would accept the argument that they should
be happy to be bug-compatible with the latest upstream kernel - even more so
if that latest upstream kernel is a release candidate and the problem was
introduced in the commit window.

Guenter