Re: [PATCH 3.12 00/39] 3.12.53-stable review

From: Jiri Slaby
Date: Mon Jan 25 2016 - 10:05:58 EST


On 01/25/2016, 03:50 PM, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On 01/25/2016 03:49 AM, Jiri Slaby wrote:
>> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.12.53 release.
>> There are 39 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 Wed Jan 27 12:44:04 CET 2016.
>> Anything received after that time might be too late.
>>
>
> Early feedback: m68k builds fail due to 'm68k: handle
> pgtable_page_ctor() fail',
> which would also require upstream commit 390f44e2aa2ab ("mm: allow
> pgtable_page_ctor() to fail").

I noticed and pushed a fixed tree without that commit :).

> However, that commit alone doesn't add
> any value;
> it requires additional commits to make sense. I don't know what those are.
> Copying Kirill for advice.

It needs the later rewrite where the function can actually fail.

thanks,
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