On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 01:56:49PM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 12:40:36PM +0000, James Hogan wrote:
> > Hi Greg,
> >
> > On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 01:35:46PM +0100, gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > The patch below was submitted to be applied to the 4.9-stable tree.
> > >
> > > I fail to see how this patch meets the stable kernel rules as found at
> > > Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst.
> > >
> > > I could be totally wrong, and if so, please respond to
> > > <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> and let me know why this patch should be
> > > applied. Otherwise, it is now dropped from my patch queues, never to be
> > > seen again.
> >
> > I should have adjusted the commit message. KERN_WARN doesn't exist so it
> > actually fixes a build error as well as switching to pr_warn().
>
> What build error? I have not heard of this breaking the build on 4.9
> for the past year, is it in some config that no one uses? :)
The LEDE project has been carrying the patch [1] since February when
they added 4.9 support (their 4.4 support had a slightly earlier version
of the driver added with just a plain printk, no KERN_WARN).
They have both CONFIG_SOC_MT7620 and CONFIG_PCI=y in their ralink mt7620
config [2], and they are keeping up to date with stable releases [3], so
I have no doubt they would appreciate having the patch applied to
upstream stable to reduce their delta.
The only defconfigs in mainline which enable this platform
(CONFIG_SOC_MT7620) are omega2p_defconfig and vocore2_defconfig, which
were added in August by Harvey to help widen our internal continuous
build & boot test coverage. Neither defconfig enables CONFIG_PCI yet
which is required to see the build failure below, but regardless it is a
valid configuration which LEDE is actively using.
arch/mips/pci/pci-mt7620.c: In function ‘wait_pciephy_busy’:
arch/mips/pci/pci-mt7620.c:123:11: error: ‘KERN_WARN’ undeclared (first use in this function)
printk(KERN_WARN "PCIE-PHY retry failed.\n");
^~~~~~~~~
John: I'm not familiar with the hardware, but would it be appropriate to
add CONFIG_PCI=y to either of those 2 defconfigs (omega2p_defconfig and
vocore2_defconfig) so this driver gets some upstream build[/boot]
testing?
Anyway, hopefully that helps allay stable backport concerns.
Thanks
James
[1] https://github.com/lede-project/source/blob/master/target/linux/ramips/patches-4.9/0099-pci-mt7620.patch
[2] https://github.com/lede-project/source/blob/master/target/linux/ramips/mt7620/config-4.9
[3] https://github.com/lede-project/source/commit/9fe59abef8bde3b7f32868873c4e1f76e9222d46
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