linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5.10 000/284] 5.10.221-rc2 review

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Message-ID: <2024071543-footing-vantage-bd4f@gregkh>
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2024 13:43:21 +0200
From: Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: Frank Scheiner <frank.scheiner@....de>
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	Tomáš Glozar <tglozar@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5.10 000/284] 5.10.221-rc2 review

On Fri, Jul 12, 2024 at 04:19:39PM +0200, Frank Scheiner wrote:
> On 12.07.24 15:32, Greg KH wrote:
> > I'm confused, which commit should we add, or should we just revert what
> > we have now?
> 
> Sorry for the confusion. Let me try again:
> 
> 1. efi: memmap: Move manipulation routines into x86 arch tree
> 
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git/commit/?h=linux-5.10.y&id=31e0721aeabde29371f624f56ce2f403508527a5
> 
> ...breaks the build for ia64, because it requires a header that does not
> exist before 8ff059b8531f3b98e14f0461859fc7cdd95823e4 for ia64.
> 
> 2. efi: ia64: move IA64-only declarations to new asm/efi.h header
> 
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=8ff059b8531f3b98e14f0461859fc7cdd95823e4
> 
> adds this header and fixes the ia64 build, see for example [1].
> 
> [1]:
> https://github.com/linux-ia64/linux-stable-rc/actions/runs/9871144965#summary-27258970494
> 
> From my understanding 31e0721aeabde29371f624f56ce2f403508527a5 should
> not be merged w/o 8ff059b8531f3b98e14f0461859fc7cdd95823e4, which also
> seems to be the case for all other stable kernels from linux-5.12.y up.
> 
> So 8ff059b8531f3b98e14f0461859fc7cdd95823e4 should be added, too, if
> 31e0721aeabde29371f624f56ce2f403508527a5 stays in.

Ok, thanks, now queued up.

> > And I thought that ia64 was dead?
> 
> No, actually it's alive and well - just currently outside of mainline -
> but still in the stable kernels up to linux-6.6.y and for newer kernels
> patched back in. If you want to check on our CI ([2]), all current
> stable kernels build fine for ia64 and run in Ski - but linux-5.10.y
> currently only because I manually added
> 8ff059b8531f3b98e14f0461859fc7cdd95823e4 to the list of patches applied
> by the CI.
> 
> [2]: https://github.com/linux-ia64/linux-stable-rc/actions/runs/9901808825

Will be interesting to see how long it lasts, good luck!

greg k-h