Messages in this thread | | | From | Arnd Bergmann <> | Date | Wed, 13 Oct 2021 10:50:16 +0200 | Subject | Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.10 11/11] firmware: include drivers/firmware/Kconfig unconditionally |
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On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 10:45 AM Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 10:38:01AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 7:58 AM Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 08:55:31PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote: > > > > > > This isn't for stable kernels, it should be dropped from all of your > > > AUTOSEL queues. > > > > Agreed. The second patch that depends on this does fix a (randconfig) > > build issue in stable kernels as well, but that patch is currently broken, > > Fixing randconfig issues isn't important for stable, is it? The target > audience for 5.10.74 are people running a kernel between 5.10 and > 5.10.73, and those don't suffer from this type of build problem, right?
In general, I think randconfig build testing is useful for validating stable kernels, to help avoid regressions, but there are a number of known randconfig problems that you hit much more frequently than this one, which only breaks once every few hundred kernel builds.
Arnd
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