Subject: Re: Linux 4.9: Reported regressions as of Sunday, 2016-10-30
To: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
References: <0eb29167-7908-e049-6927-d9c6b093970d@leemhuis.info>
 <1477988293.2230.36.camel@tiscali.nl>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
From: Thorsten Leemhuis <regressions@leemhuis.info>
Message-ID: <3b39cb73-8cb7-74b4-0a71-6966ac2798d3@leemhuis.info>
Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2016 14:10:03 +0100
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101
 Thunderbird/45.4.0
MIME-Version: 1.0
In-Reply-To: <1477988293.2230.36.camel@tiscali.nl>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
Content-Length: 899
Lines: 22

Lo! On 01.11.2016 09:18, Paul Bolle wrote:
> On Sun, 2016-10-30 at 14:20 +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>> As always: Are you aware of any other regressions? Then please let me
>> know (simply CC regressions@leemhuis.info).
> Do build regressions count?

That's a good question.

> Because I was trying to fix an obscure build issue in arch/mips, choose
> a random configuration that should hit that issue, and promptly ran
> into
> https://lkml.kernel.org/r/<201610301405.K82KqqW0%25fengguang.wu@intel.com>
> The same configuration does build under v4.8, I tested that of course.

I'd say it's a practical problem that users run into and hence it's a
regression. Sure, in this case it hits only those that compile kernels
themselves; but those are users, too, and we don't want to scare them
away with things that suddenly stop working.

IOW: I'll include it in this weeks report.

Ciao, Thorsten