Re: rcu kernel-doc issues (4.14-rc1)

From: Jonathan Corbet
Date: Wed Oct 18 2017 - 12:03:47 EST


On Mon, 16 Oct 2017 13:26:19 -0700
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> OK, how about if I submit them to the 4.15 merge window, but add the
> appropriate -stable tags to get them backported? Yes, these are bugs,
> but I cannot in good conscience claim that they are v4.14 regressions.
>
> But if Jon agrees with you, I will of course create a patch series,
> pull request, or whatever and send it along to him.

[Sorry for being slow ... $EXCUSES ... ]

One could argue that they are indeed a regression; they introduced a bunch
of build errors into 4.14. I think it would be better to see it fixed if
possible. I don't care that much about how it gets there; Paul, I can
send it Linusward if you don't want to.

Thanks,

jon