In message: v5.2.x - stable updates comprising v5.2.31 on 31/01/2020 Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> Bruce, Yocto kernel folks: > > Here is the next 5.2.x stable update "extension" primarily created for > the Yocto project, as the 10th v5.2.x post-EOL release. > > This release is "normal" -- where it consists of an audit of what went > into 5.3.1[78] releases, resulting in about 175 commits for v5.2.31. > > But two notes of interest I want to mention. > > 1) This completes the audit of v5.3-stable, as v5.3.18 was the last > release in that version. I'll detail more on how backports were chosen > in the eventual v5.2.32 release notes, but v5.4.x will most likely play > a prominent role in determining what commits I look at. > > 2) There were 28 commits - or about 15% of the whole 5.3.17 release > against the one driver: drivers/scsi/qla2xxx -- that may not mean much > to others, but as someone who has tracked stable content for many years, > it is unprecedented, in my opinion. Backports from mainline or from the > v5.3-stable were not "hands free" onto the v5.2 baseline. Given that, > and that stable isn't IMHO the place for a wholesale driver uprev, I > removed the series. People with the hardware can investigate and adapt. > > I've put this 5.2.31 queue through the usual testing; build testing on > x86-64/32, ARM-64/32, PPC and MIPS, plus some static analysis and > finally some sanity runtime tests on x86-64. I had one conflict in preempt-rt in our old friend workqueue.c, I resolved it by keeping the -rt version around and dropping the -stable tweaks. Otherwise, no issues with the merge. Thanks for the update! Bruce > > I did the signed tag just as per the previously released versions. > Please find a signed v5.2.31 tag using this key: > > http://pgp.mit.edu/pks/lookup?op=vindex&search=0xEBCE84042C07D1D6 > > in the repo in the kernel.org directory here: > > > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux-5.2.y.git/?h=linux-5.2.y > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux-5.2.y.git > > for merge to standard/base in linux-yocto-5.2 and then out from there > into the other base and BSP branches. > > For those who are interested, the evolution of the commits is here: > > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/paulg/longterm-queue-5.2.git/ > > This repo isn't needed for anything; it just exists for transparency and > so people can see the evolution of the raw commits that were originally > selected to create this 5.2.x release. > > Paul.
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