linux-kernel - Re: Linux 6.16-rc1

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Message-ID: <CAHk-=whDM950+cCgmNH2edB2edCaktdpvBLGjFESAZfYZ3ZpRQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2025 22:42:20 -0700
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, 
	Alexander Usyskin <alexander.usyskin@...el.com>, Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com>
Subject: Re: Linux 6.16-rc1

On Tue, 10 Jun 2025 at 18:25, Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net> wrote:
>
> The test failures are all due to commit 0aa7b390fc40 ("mtd: core: always
> create master device") which breaks mtd partitioning.

Ok, I just merged the pull request that reverted that one.

> One side note: Various qemu machines configured to use Macronix flash chips
> are no longer able to access the chips. This is primarily due to commit
> 947c86e481a0 ("mtd: spi-nor: macronix: Drop the redundant flash info
> fields"). After that change, SFDP support for affected chips is mandatory,
> and qemu does not or not correctly support that. This affects quanta-gsj,
> kudo-bmc, ast2600-evb, and supermicro-x11spi-bmc machines (and possibly
> others).

.. but this issue presumably remains, unless there's been some subtler
indirect fix that I didn't realize.

Miguel, that one came through you too. Comments? I do think that
running things in qemu is likely important for a lot of these things
that don't actually have a ton of hardware that is easily automated...

            Linus