Re: [PATCH 6.18 000/675] 6.18.42-rc1 review

On Thu, Jul 30, 2026 at 08:17:17PM +0200, Miguel Ojeda wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Jul 2026 16:05:30 +0200 Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.18.42 release.
> > There are 675 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 Sat, 01 Aug 2026 14:13:45 +0000.
> > Anything received after that time might be too late.
> 
> Boot-tested under QEMU for Rust x86_64, arm64 and riscv64; built-tested
> for loongarch64 and arm32:
> 
> Tested-by: Miguel Ojeda <[email protected]>
> 
> I detected in the middle of the build lines like:
> 
>     find: 'lib': No such file or directory
> 
> It looks like we need:
> 
>     ee8bfb15d02d ("drm: drop lib from header search path.")
> 
> to go together with the one that was backported:
> 
>     5e7b3c10420e ("gpu: Move DRM buddy allocator one level up (part two)")
> 
> Having said that, there is something going on a bit confusing: commits
> "part one" (4a9671a03f2b) and "part two" (ba110db8e1bc) in mainline seem
> to have been merged into just the "part two" above in this -rc. Is that
> intentional? I am asking because the original removal of the `lib`
> folder happened in "part one" in mainline, so I was expecting to have to
> point to that one above, but it doesn't exist on its own.
> 
> Cc: Joel Fernandes <[email protected]>
> Cc: David Airlie <[email protected]>
> Cc: Simona Vetter <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]

Odd, looks like Sasha did it in one backport instead of two, perhaps
because we wanted a real patch and not a "move" patch?

Anyway, I'll go take the fixup change now too, thanks!

greg k-h