Re: [PATCH 6.2 000/138] 6.2.12-rc2 review

[<Conor.Dooley@microchip.com>]

On 19/04/2023 10:40, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> EXTERNAL EMAIL: Do not click links or open attachments unless you know the content is safe
> 
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.2.12 release.
> There are 138 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 Fri, 21 Apr 2023 09:36:26 +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/v6.x/stable-review/patch-6.2.12-rc2.gz
> or in the git tree and branch at:
>          git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-6.2.y
> and the diffstat can be found below.
> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h


> Alyssa Ross <hi@alyssa.is>
>      purgatory: fix disabling debug info
> 
> Heiko Stuebner <heiko.stuebner@vrull.eu>
>      RISC-V: add infrastructure to allow different str* implementations

Lore is ~dead for me right now, but there should be a custom backport of
Alyssa's commit, submitted by her, here:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230417134044.1821014-1-hi@alyssa.is/

Perhaps the reason is just the quantity of email, but that was
submitted against the "fail" email (and within a few hours), so why
was another commit pulled back instead of using what she provided?


> Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@rivosinc.com>
>      riscv: Do not set initial_boot_params to the linear address of the dtb

Same as 6.1.y, Alex said he'll provide a backport for the whole
series, so just drop this here too please.

Thanks,
Conor.