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

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Wed Oct 18 2017 - 12:27:10 EST


On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 10:03:40AM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> 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.

I never have pushed directly to Linus, so I might as well get started
doing so.

On a related topic... Is there anything that test-builds docbook prior
to patches hitting mainline? My experience indicates that the answer is
"no".

Thanx, Paul