Re: [PATCH 5.4.y stable only] MIPS: fix "mipsel-linux-ld: decompress.c:undefined reference to `memmove'"

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On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 07:22:00PM +0800, Gao Xiang wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 12:52:33PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 09, 2021 at 09:24:08PM +0800, Gao Xiang wrote:
> > > commit a510b616131f85215ba156ed67e5ed1c0701f80f upstream.
> > 
> > That is not what this commit id is :(
> > 
> > Please fix this up and be more careful.
> 
> That's the exact commit, the original upstream commit was named as
> "MIPS: Add support for ZSTD-compressed kernels", which contains the
> memmove() definition so the upstream / 5.10 LTS kernel is fine.
> 
> But for 5.4 LTS, we shouldn't backport the whole patch since only
> memmove() part is needed in order to fix the build regression...

That was not obvious, and is confusing :(

Please just submit the fix and say _why_ this is not an upstream commit,
do not attempt to emulate an upstream commit like your change did.

thanks,

greg k-h



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