[LEDE-DEV] [PATCH] kernel: backport fix undefined abort

Andrey Jr. Melnikov temnota.am at gmail.com
Tue Jan 30 12:04:38 PST 2018


Hauke Mehrtens <hauke at hauke-m.de> wrote:


> On 01/30/2018 04:32 PM, Andrey Jr. Melnikov wrote:
> > Evgeniy Didin <Evgeniy.Didin at synopsys.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> While building mpi.ko module with stable Linux v4.14.14 an error occured:
> >>> ERROR: "abort" [lib/mpi/mpi.ko] undefined!
> >> In upstream Linux 4.15 this issue is fixed:
> >> Commit 7c2c11b208be ("arch: define weak abort()")
> >> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=7c2c11b208be09c156573fc0076b7b3646e05219
> > 
> >> Commit dc8635b78cd8 ("kernel/exit.c: export abort() to modules")
> >> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=dc8635b78cd8669c37e230058d18c33af7451ab1
> > 
> >> So lets add backport patches until these fixes
> >> are not applied in stable version.
> > 
> >> Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Didin <Evgeniy.Didin at synopsys.com>
> >> Cc: Alexey Brodkin <abrodkin at synopsys.com>
> >> CC: John Crispin <john at phrozen.org>
> >> CC: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke at hauke-m.de>
> > 
> > Copy this description into commit comments. After next patch rebase - it lost.

> The patch already contain the full commit message and the hash so it is
> pretty easy to find where they are from. I think this patch looks good.
> I still hope that this will go into the 4.14 stable tree and we do not
> have to maintain this any more.
Original commit message not explaining WHY and FOR WHAT this patch added in
openwrt tree.

When adding new kernel and rebase patches - you and other developers COPY
patches across new directory and losing history - why this patch landed
in tree. 
Try understand why 650-pppoe_header_pad.patch here? 
Or 680-NET-skip-GRO-for-foreign-MAC-addresses.patch ?

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