Re: [PATCH 5.10 000/163] 5.10.119-rc1 review

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Fri, May 27, 2022 at 04:14:21PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.10.119 release.
> > There are 163 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.
> 
> Is there some kind of back-story why we are doing massive changes to
> /dev/random? 5.19-rc1 is not even out, so third of those changes did
> not get much testing.

Did you miss the posting on the stable list that described all of this:
	https://lore.kernel.org/all/YouECCoUA6eZEwKf@xxxxxxxxx/

> It seems we hit some problems, but I'm not sure if they are kernel
> problems or test infrastructure problems. Perhaps Chris can help?
> 
> https://gitlab.com/cip-project/cip-testing/linux-stable-rc-ci/-/pipelines/549589225

I do not know how to decypher random test summaries like this, sorry.

greg k-h