Re: [PATCH 6.12 000/218] 6.12.36-rc1 review

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Sat, Jul 05, 2025 at 03:50:32PM +0200, Pascal Ernster wrote:
> [2025-07-03 16:39] Greg Kroah-Hartman:
> > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.12.36 release.
> > There are 218 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, 05 Jul 2025 14:39:10 +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-6.12.36-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-6.12.y
> 
> 
> Hi Greg,
> 
> 
> there seems to be a divergence between 6.12.36-rc1 and the current state of queue/6.12 or stable-queue/queue-6.12 (five patches dropped and two modified), but there doesn't seem to be an rc2 - is this intentional?
> 
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git/diff/?id2=08de5e8741606608ca5489679ec1604bb7f3d777&id=4c3f7f0935ba0c1ca54be4e82cc8f27595ab8e61
> 
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git/diff/queue-6.12?id=c0bc2de2a5416da11ffadb0d10da975d1bdb1ada&id2=e1bd69ff09807d5bf80f17f3279240cb223145a6
> 

Yes, intentional, I only do new -rcs if people are reporting build/run
errors on -rcs, but we drop patches that people ask us to drop or fix in
the queue without doing new -rc releases as that's not really needed.

> In any case, I've applied all patches from the current version of stable-queue/queue-6.12 (commit id c0bc2de2a5416da11ffadb0d10da975d1bdb1ada) applied on top of a 6.12.35 kernel, compiled the result with GCC 15.1.0 as part of OpenWRT images for various platforms, and I've booted and tested those images on the following platforms without noticing any issues:
> 
> - x86_64: Intel Haswell VM
> - MIPS 4KEc V7.0: Netgear GS108T v3 (SoC: Realtek RTL8380M)
> - MIPS 4KEc V7.0: Netgear GS310TP v1 (SoC: Realtek RTL8380M)
> - MIPS 74Kc V5.0: TP-Link Archer C7 v4 (SoC: Qualcomm QCA956X)
> 
> Not sure it that qualifies for a "Tested-by" though because of the divergence to 6.12.36-rc1.

A tested-by would be great if you want to provide it, thanks!

greg k-h