[elrepo] Announcement: EL7 Updated kernel-ml Package Set [6.3.7-1]

[John Pilkington]

On 19/06/2023 18:08, Akemi Yagi wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 19, 2023 at 1:09 AM John Pilkington <johnpilk222 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 19/06/2023 03:15, Akemi Yagi wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jun 14, 2023 at 1:31 AM John Pilkington <johnpilk222 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 11/06/2023 23:33, Akemi Yagi wrote:
>>>>> On Sun, Jun 11, 2023 at 11:14 AM John Pilkington <johnpilk222 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 11/06/2023 16:18, Akemi Yagi wrote:
>>>>>>> On Sun, Jun 11, 2023 at 4:49 AM John Pilkington <johnpilk222 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 10/06/2023 01:09, Akemi Yagi wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Announcing the release of the kernel-ml-6.3.7-1.el7.elrepo package set
>>>>>>>>> into the EL7 elrepo-kernel repository:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> https://elrepo.org/tiki/kernel-ml
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> The upstream changelog:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v6.x/ChangeLog-6.3.7
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I have perhaps the world's only mythtv system running under kernel-ml.
>>>>>>>> It has been going well until this update, after which the frontend was
>>>>>>>> unable contact the backend, and attempts to kill tha backend also failed.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> It's ok again after switching back to 6.3.6.  I would prefer to stay
>>>>>>>> there, but could do more tests if I knew what might help.
>>>>
>>>>> It is entirely possible that some kernel source code related to mythtv
>>>>> has been updated. If that is that case, I have no idea where to
>>>>> look...
>>>>>
>>>>> Akemi
>>>>
>>>> And it seems appropriate to report that I now see this same problem in
>>>> mythtv with the release of 6.3.7 in Fedora 37.  Again, 6.3.6 works.
>>>>
>>>> John
>>>
>>> Hi John,
>>>
>>> The following bug report might be related to your mythtv issue:
>>>
>>> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217566
>>>
>>> Akemi
>>> ________
>>
>> Hi Akemi:  Thank you for the link.  Several other people have seen the
>> problem and I opened an 'issue' here.  I'll add your reference  to it.
>>
>> https://github.com/MythTV/mythtv/issues/761
>>
>> John
> 
> Hi Hohn,
> 
> I see that a patch that fixes the issue has been applied to kernel
> 6.3.9-rc1. The GA version is most likely released on Wednesday.
> ELRepo's kernel-ml 6.3.9 will follow soon after.
> 
> Akemi

Thanks again.  I have mytvtv running, apparently normally, with F37 
6.3.9.rc1, so the elrepo el7 6.3.9 ought to be ok :-)

John