Re: preparations for 4.14.1

[Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 6 Nov 2020, Jan Beulich wrote:
> On 06.11.2020 02:58, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> > On Wed, 4 Nov 2020, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >> the release is due in a couple of weeks time. Please point out
> >> backports you find missing from the respective staging branch,
> >> but which you consider relevant. (Ian: Please double check
> >> there are indeed no tools side backports needed here.)
> >>
> >> Julien, Stefano, on the Arm side I'd like to ask for
> >>
> >> 5d45ecabe3c0 xen/arm64: force gcc 10+ to always inline generic atomics 
> >> helpers
> >>
> >> just like I did when sending the respective 4.13.2 / 4.12.4
> >> mail. Is there a particular reason it wasn't put in?
> > 
> > No, I have just backported 5d45ecabe3c0 and a couple of other fixes.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> > Jan, do you think we should backport the following also?
> > 
> > 8856a914b build: also check for empty .bss.* in .o -> .init.o conversion
> 
> Not having it wasn't causing active problems afaict, so it
> was more to prevent future issues to put it in place. Did
> we gain dependencies on this change which want backporting?

No that's OK. I was just wondering if it was fixing something important
enough to backport. I think we are good on my side then.