This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled kbuild: remove PYTHON2 variable to the 5.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: kbuild-remove-python2-variable.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Fri 21 Aug 2020 04:30:09 PM CEST From: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2020 17:36:28 +0900 Subject: kbuild: remove PYTHON2 variable From: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 94f7345b712405b79647a6a4bf8ccbd0d78fa69d upstream. Python 2 has retired. There is no user of this variable. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Makefile | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -423,7 +423,6 @@ INSTALLKERNEL := installkernel DEPMOD = /sbin/depmod PERL = perl PYTHON = python -PYTHON2 = python2 PYTHON3 = python3 CHECK = sparse BASH = bash @@ -474,7 +473,7 @@ CLANG_FLAGS := export ARCH SRCARCH CONFIG_SHELL BASH HOSTCC KBUILD_HOSTCFLAGS CROSS_COMPILE AS LD CC export CPP AR NM STRIP OBJCOPY OBJDUMP OBJSIZE READELF PAHOLE LEX YACC AWK INSTALLKERNEL -export PERL PYTHON PYTHON2 PYTHON3 CHECK CHECKFLAGS MAKE UTS_MACHINE HOSTCXX +export PERL PYTHON PYTHON3 CHECK CHECKFLAGS MAKE UTS_MACHINE HOSTCXX export KBUILD_HOSTCXXFLAGS KBUILD_HOSTLDFLAGS KBUILD_HOSTLDLIBS LDFLAGS_MODULE export KBUILD_CPPFLAGS NOSTDINC_FLAGS LINUXINCLUDE OBJCOPYFLAGS KBUILD_LDFLAGS Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-5.4/kbuild-support-llvm-1-to-switch-the-default-tools-to-clang-llvm.patch queue-5.4/kbuild-remove-python2-variable.patch queue-5.4/net-wan-wanxl-use-m68kcc-instead-of-m68kas-for-rebuilding-firmware.patch queue-5.4/kbuild-remove-as-variable.patch queue-5.4/net-wan-wanxl-use-allow-to-pass-cross_compile_m68k-for-rebuilding-firmware.patch queue-5.4/kbuild-replace-as-clang-with-llvm_ias-1.patch queue-5.4/documentation-llvm-fix-the-name-of-llvm-size.patch queue-5.4/documentation-llvm-add-documentation-on-building-w-clang-llvm.patch queue-5.4/x86-boot-kbuild-allow-readelf-executable-to-be-specified.patch