Re: [PATCH 4.9 52/66] Revert "perf tests: Decompress kernel module before objdump"

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Wed Sep 05 2018 - 15:30:00 EST


On Wed, Sep 05, 2018 at 11:50:02AM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> On 04/17/2018 08:59 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > 4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> >
> > ------------------
> >
> > From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > This reverts commit 7525a238be8f46617cdda29d1be5b85ffe3b042d which is
> > commit 94df1040b1e6aacd8dec0ba3c61d7e77cd695f26 upstream.
> >
> > It breaks the build of perf on 4.9.y, so I'm dropping it.
>
> Sorry to hijack this thread, I was not able to find the original email
> when the offending patch was included in 4.1.52. So kernel 4.1.52 also
> has the same problem, can you push a 4.1.53 tag with that patch reverted
> as well?

4.1 is long end-of-life now, I'm not going to be going and updating a
"dead' kernel for a perf build bug.

You shouldn't be using this kernel either :)

thanks,

greg k-h