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Date:   Wed, 17 May 2023 10:58:50 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To:     Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 5.4 000/282] 5.4.243-rc1 review
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On Wed, May 17, 2023 at 10:26:54AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Wed, May 17, 2023 at 10:25:13AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Tue, May 16, 2023 at 08:52:13PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > > On Mon, May 15, 2023 at 06:26:18PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.4.243 release.
> > > > There are 282 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 Wed, 17 May 2023 16:16:37 +0000.
> > > > Anything received after that time might be too late.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Build results:
> > > 	total: 159 pass: 159 fail: 0
> > > Qemu test results:
> > > 	total: 455 pass: 454 fail: 1
> > > Failed tests:
> > > 	arm:sabrelite:multi_v7_defconfig:mtd2:mem256:net,default:imx6dl-sabrelite:rootfs
> > > 
> > > As far as I can see, the second SPI interface fails to instantiate.
> > > 
> > > [   21.491528] spi_imx 2008000.spi: bitbang start failed with -22
> > > 
> > > There are also various new warnings in clock code.
> > > 
> > > [   21.492631] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at drivers/clk/clk.c:986 clk_core_disable+0x124/0x2e4
> > > [   21.497524] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at drivers/clk/clk.c:845 clk_core_unprepare+0x268/0x388
> > > 
> > > The warnings in clock code are gone after reverting all changes introducing
> > > PM support for imx spi code. The boot failure is gone after reverting the
> > > gpio conversion. In total, I reverted the following patches to fix the
> > > boot and warning problems.
> > > 
> > > d6fcaa127cc6 Revert "spi: imx/fsl-lpspi: Convert to GPIO descriptors"
> > > 9783b21b591d Revert "spi: imx: enable runtime pm support"
> > > 4a8bdbf7462b Revert "spi: spi-imx: using pm_runtime_resume_and_get instead of pm_runtime_get_sync"
> > > e6c5f497ff35 Revert "spi: imx: Don't skip cleanup in remove's error path"
> > > d6ea758df74f Revert "spi: imx: fix runtime pm support for !CONFIG_PM"
> > > b9dbd028c970 Revert "spi: imx: fix reference leak in two imx operations"
> > > 
> > > Is this really 5.4 material ?
> > 
> > You are right, this isn't 5.4 material (and really not 5.10 either for
> > some of these changes.)  I'll go drop them all from 5.4.y and 5.10.y and
> > push out -rc2 releases soon.
> 
> I'll leave the 5.10.y changes, they were sane.

And as I just dropped patches, I'll not push out a -rc2, that would
probably not help anyone.

thanks,

greg k-h