This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.4.256 release. There are 3 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please let me know. Responses should be made by Sat, 02 Sep 2023 11:08:22 +0000. Anything received after that time might be too late. The whole patch series can be found in one patch at: https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/stable-review/patch-5.4.256-rc1.gz or in the git tree and branch at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-5.4.y and the diffstat can be found below. thanks, greg k-h ------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Linux 5.4.256-rc1 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Revert "MIPS: Alchemy: fix dbdma2" YueHaibing <yuehaibing@xxxxxxxxxx> powerpc/pmac/smp: Drop unnecessary volatile qualifier Ilie Halip <ilie.halip@xxxxxxxxx> powerpc/pmac/smp: Avoid unused-variable warnings ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 4 ++-- arch/mips/alchemy/common/dbdma.c | 27 ++++++++++++--------------- arch/powerpc/platforms/powermac/smp.c | 8 ++++---- 3 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)