Linux kernel updates 2022-09-29

[Ma27]

Description of changes

Still a draft while I'm testing the changes.

Note: the kernel-generic tests don't evaluate right now, apparently because of #193485.

Things done

• Built on platform(s)
  • x86_64-linux
  • aarch64-linux
  • x86_64-darwin
  • aarch64-darwin
• For non-Linux: Is sandbox = true set in nix.conf? (See Nix manual)
• Tested, as applicable:
  • NixOS test(s) (look inside nixos/tests)
  • and/or package tests
  • or, for functions and "core" functionality, tests in lib/tests or pkgs/test
  • made sure NixOS tests are linked to the relevant packages
• Tested compilation of all packages that depend on this change using nix-shell -p nixpkgs-review --run "nixpkgs-review rev HEAD". Note: all changes have to be committed, also see nixpkgs-review usage
• Tested basic functionality of all binary files (usually in ./result/bin/)
• 22.11 Release Notes (or backporting 22.05 Release notes)
  • (Package updates) Added a release notes entry if the change is major or breaking
  • (Module updates) Added a release notes entry if the change is significant
  • (Module addition) Added a release notes entry if adding a new NixOS module
  • (Release notes changes) Ran nixos/doc/manual/md-to-db.sh to update generated release notes
• Fits CONTRIBUTING.md.

[Ma27]

Kernels are building and working fine for me. For testing purposes I reverted the PR I linked above to make kernel-generic.nix evaluatable again.

The thing is, I'm kinda hesitant to push the revert because the change is related to fixing a channel blocker (cc @roberth).

I'll remove the draft status though because the kernel updates seem fine.

[roberth]

The tests do evaluate, but not kernel-generic.nix is not a valid entrypoint for evaluation anymore.
For example, nix-build -A nixosTests.kernel-generic.linux_4_9 and nix-build nixos/release.nix -A tests.kernel-generic.linux_4_9.x86_64-linux work fine.
As does nix-build nixos/tests/kernel-generic.nix -A linux_4_9.test. Breaking this third way of wiring and invoking the test is not so great. There's probably something hacky we could do with the // operator to magically make it work, but that's awful. I'll have another look later.
For the time being at least the code paths used by hydra and ofborg are ok, fwiw.

[github-actions]

Successfully created backport PR #193958 for release-22.05.