On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 03:39:54PM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote: > On Sat, Jan 20, 2024 at 08:08:13PM -0500, Sasha Levin wrote: > > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled > > > > powerpc: remove checks for binutils older than 2.25 > > > > to the 6.1-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: > > powerpc-remove-checks-for-binutils-older-than-2.25.patch > > and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory. > > > > If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, > > please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. > > > > > > > > commit 71cbe64487ced1c21d177e6e478d6f8e473f9b45 > > Author: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Date: Thu Jan 19 17:22:50 2023 +0900 > > > > powerpc: remove checks for binutils older than 2.25 > > > > [ Upstream commit 54a11654de163994e32b24e3aa90ef81f4a3184d ] > > > > Commit e4412739472b ("Documentation: raise minimum supported version of > > binutils to 2.25") allows us to remove the checks for old binutils. > > Commit e4412739472b landed in 6.2 and I don't see it backported, so this > risks breaking users of binutils 2.23 to 2.25 in 6.1. While that risk is > pretty low since I have not seen any complaints about raising that > version in mainline and I doubt people are upgrading their kernel and > not their toolchain, it could certainly happen... Not sure if you want > to be proactive about it but I figured I would bring it up anyways. Good point, we can revert this if it causes problems for people. thanks, greg k-h
