Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 12 Sep 2015 10:51:44 -0700 | From | Guenter Roeck <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3.10 00/11] 3.10.88-stable review |
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On 09/12/2015 10:36 AM, Sudip Mukherjee wrote: > On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 07:22:39PM +0300, Max Filippov wrote: >> On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 6:55 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman >> <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote: >>> On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 12:56:03PM +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote: >>>> On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 03:48:59PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: >>>>> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.10.88 release. >>>>> There are 11 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. >>>>> >>>>> Responses should be made by Sun Sep 13 22:45:08 UTC 2015. >>>>> Anything received after that time might be too late. >>>> Compiled and booted on x86_32. No errors in dmesg. >>>> >>>> cross_compiled with allmodconfig: >> ... >>>> xtensa - failed >>> >>> Are these all new failures? >> >> Build log says >> >> /home/travis/local/gcc-4.9.0-nolibc/xtensa-linux/bin/xtensa-linux-objcopy: >> Unable to change endianness of input file(s) >> make[2]: *** [arch/xtensa/boot/boot-elf/Image.o] Error 1 >> >> which looks like misconfigured toolchain. > But the same script and same toolchain compiles properly for 4.1.7-rc1, > 3.14.52-rc1 and also works for Linus tree (last tested yesterday > morning). I will see what has changed between 3.10 and 3.14 so that it > doesnot work for 3.10 but works for 3.14. >
The question here is if this is a new failure in 3.10, not if it has been fixed in a later kernel version.
For my part I used to report such persistent failures. However, I find it useless and even confusing to report "yep, still fails", unless there is a plan to fix it, so I don't do that anymore. Otherwise it is just a waste of test resources, and it makes it difficult to understand the test summary.
If I _do_ report such failures, I track down the cause and the fix, and ask the branch maintainer to apply the necessary patch(es).
Guenter
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