linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5.15 000/123] 5.15.196-rc1 review

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Message-ID: <2025102850-obedience-filter-efca@gregkh>
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2025 09:33:17 +0100
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: Ron Economos <re@...z.net>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 5.15 000/123] 5.15.196-rc1 review

On Mon, Oct 27, 2025 at 09:49:59PM -0700, Ron Economos wrote:
> On 10/27/25 11:34, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.15.196 release.
> > There are 123 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, 29 Oct 2025 18:34:15 +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-5.15.196-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-5.15.y
> > and the diffstat can be found below.
> > 
> > thanks,
> > 
> > greg k-h
> 
> The RISC-V build fails with:
> 
> arch/riscv/kernel/cpu.c: In function 'riscv_of_processor_hartid':
> arch/riscv/kernel/cpu.c:24:33: error: implicit declaration of function
> 'of_get_cpu_hwid'; did you mean 'of_get_cpu_node'?
> [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
>    24 |         *hart = (unsigned long) of_get_cpu_hwid(node, 0);
>       |                                 ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>       |                                 of_get_cpu_node
> cc1: some warnings being treated as errors
> 
> The function of_get_cpu_hwid() doesn't exist in Linux 5.15.x. It was
> introduced in 5.16-rc1. The following patches should be reverted:
> 
> 87b94f8227b3b654ea6e7670cefb32dab0e570ed RISC-V: Don't fail in
> riscv_of_parent_hartid() for disabled HARTs
> 
> 568d34c6aafa066bbdb5e7b6aed9c492d81964e8 RISC-V: Don't print details of CPUs
> disabled in DT
> 
> And the stable-dep-of patches for the above should also be reverted since
> they cause warnings:
> 
> 989694ece94da2bbae6c6f3f044994302f923cc8 riscv: cpu: Add 64bit hartid
> support on RV64
> 
> 8c2544fd913bb7b29ee3af79e0b302036689fe7a RISC-V: Minimal parser for "riscv,
> isa" strings
> 
> e0cc917db8fb7b4881ad3e8feb76cefa06f04fe6 RISC-V: Correctly print supported
> extensions
> 
> c616540d6b67830bb4345130e8fa3d8e217249a0 iscv: Use of_get_cpu_hwid()

Thanks, I'll go drop all of these and push out a -rc2

greg k-h