This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled builddeb: fix cross-building to arm64 producing host-arch debs to the 4.9-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: builddeb-fix-cross-building-to-arm64-producing-host-arch-debs.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 152b695d74376bfe55cd2a6265ccc75b0d39dd19 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Adam Borowski <kilobyte@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2016 02:27:03 +0100 Subject: builddeb: fix cross-building to arm64 producing host-arch debs From: Adam Borowski <kilobyte@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 152b695d74376bfe55cd2a6265ccc75b0d39dd19 upstream. Both Debian and kernel archs are "arm64" but UTS_MACHINE and gcc say "aarch64". Recognizing just the latter should be enough but let's accept both in case something regresses again or an user sets UTS_MACHINE=arm64. Regressed in cfa88c7: arm64: Set UTS_MACHINE in the Makefile. Signed-off-by: Adam Borowski <kilobyte@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/package/builddeb | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/scripts/package/builddeb +++ b/scripts/package/builddeb @@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ set_debarch() { debarch=hppa ;; mips*) debarch=mips$(grep -q CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN=y $KCONFIG_CONFIG && echo el || true) ;; - arm64) + aarch64|arm64) debarch=arm64 ;; arm*) if grep -q CONFIG_AEABI=y $KCONFIG_CONFIG; then Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from kilobyte@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/builddeb-fix-cross-building-to-arm64-producing-host-arch-debs.patch queue-4.9/x86-kbuild-enable-modversions-for-symbols-exported-from-asm.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html