On 09/05/2018 12:29 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Wed, Sep 05, 2018 at 11:50:02AM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote: >> On 04/17/2018 08:59 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: >>> 4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. >>> >>> ------------------ >>> >>> From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >>> >>> This reverts commit 7525a238be8f46617cdda29d1be5b85ffe3b042d which is >>> commit 94df1040b1e6aacd8dec0ba3c61d7e77cd695f26 upstream. >>> >>> It breaks the build of perf on 4.9.y, so I'm dropping it. >> >> Sorry to hijack this thread, I was not able to find the original email >> when the offending patch was included in 4.1.52. So kernel 4.1.52 also >> has the same problem, can you push a 4.1.53 tag with that patch reverted >> as well? > > 4.1 is long end-of-life now, I'm not going to be going and updating a > "dead' kernel for a perf build bug. Meh, fair enough, I reverted the offending commit, it still points to a more fundamental problem, there is not always build testing of the tools being shipped with the kernel unfortunately. > > You shouldn't be using this kernel either :) Fortunately 4.9 is what we are mostly using these days, still getting occasional 4.1 kernel support requests unfortunately... -- Florian
