From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ian Campbell Subject: Re: [OSSTEST PATCH 02/13] Test Linux 4.1 Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2015 09:58:39 +0100 Message-ID: <1435654719.21469.25.camel@citrix.com> References: <1435598089-21647-1-git-send-email-ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com> <1435598089-21647-3-git-send-email-ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail6.bemta3.messagelabs.com ([195.245.230.39]) by lists.xen.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Z9rNN-0001of-A3 for xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; Tue, 30 Jun 2015 08:58:45 +0000 In-Reply-To: <1435598089-21647-3-git-send-email-ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Ian Jackson Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Mon, 2015-06-29 at 18:14 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > The kernel.org stable git branch layout is the same for 4.1 as for > 3.x, so simply extend the pattern, and add the branch to BRANCHES. > > DEPLOYMENT NOTE: After this patch is acked, but just before it is > pushed to pretest, run (this version of) > ./mg-branch-setup linux-4.1 bisect b953c0d234bc72e8489d3bf51a276c5c4ec85345 > to create the working trees on the osstest VM and push the base of > v4.1 to the tested output branch. > > Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson Acked-by: Ian Campbell However, I think it is inevitable there will eventually be linux-5.*. By moving this case to the end of the switch I think it could safely become linux-* i.e. the default/fallback is to assume a stable kernel.org tree. Everything else is a special case anyway. BTW, I can't see a reason why linux-3.0 is a separate case any more... Ian