Hi Russell, On Fri, Jul 15, 2022 at 12:34 AM Russell Currey <ruscur@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi Linus, > > On Wed, 2022-07-13 at 14:32 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 13, 2022 at 2:01 PM Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@xxxxxxxxx> > > wrote: > > > > > > If you want to apply Guenter's patch original patch: > > > https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/490184/ > > > That's fine with me. > > > > Honestly, by this time I feel that it's too little, too late. > > > > The ppc people apparently didn't care at all about the fact that this > > driver didn't compile. > > > > At least Michael Ellerman and Daniel Axtens were cc'd on that thread > > with the proposed fix originally. > > > > I don't see any replies from ppc people as to why it happened, even > > though apparently a bog-standard "make allmodconfig" just doesn't > > build. > > I believe Michael Ellerman has been on holiday for some time, and > Daniel Axtens no longer works on powerpc (and wasn't the one that > submitted the patch, it was submitted by Paul Mackerras, who wasn't on > CC). > > The proposed fix didn't get sent to linuxppc-dev either, so it's > unlikely many ppc people knew about it. > > We certainly should have noticed allmodconfig was broken, and should > have more than just Michael keeping an eye on all his automated builds. Not sure if I have added the correct people in my another mail, but thats also ppc allmodconfig with gcc-12. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/Ys%2FaDKZNhhsENH9S@debian/ -- Regards Sudip
