From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755485AbZDUDbT (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Apr 2009 23:31:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751710AbZDUDbJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Apr 2009 23:31:09 -0400 Received: from kroah.org ([198.145.64.141]:60705 "EHLO coco.kroah.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750951AbZDUDbI (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Apr 2009 23:31:08 -0400 Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:27:28 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Abhijit Karmarkar Cc: stable@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [stable] question regarding the -stable patch queue ? Message-ID: <20090421032728.GA14175@kroah.com> References: <88cc3e770904201826odfde9baodcf8c221a0296909@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <88cc3e770904201826odfde9baodcf8c221a0296909@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 06:26:53PM -0700, Abhijit Karmarkar wrote: > hi, > > i am trying to find if a particular upstream commit [1] will appear in > the next -stable release of 2.6.28 kernel. Yes it will. > i see this commit being marked as "-stable candidate". does that mean > it will automatically make it to the next stable release? Yes. > or should i submit a patch against the latest 2.6.28 stable series, to > have this patch queued up for next stable release (2.6.28.10). can > someone please advice? If you know that the commit that went into Linus's tree will not apply to the 2.6.28-stable tree, please send an updated version to the stable@kernel.org address. > what is the recommend way to do this search ("will upstream patch X be > included in the next stable release")? so i don't bug this list in > future with similar queries. Just ask stable@kernel.org about it. We've been a bit behind on flushing out the -stable queue (right now my todo-stable mbox contains 399 emails I need to wade through), due to vacations and conferences. I'm slowly getting there, sorry for the delay. thanks for your patience, greg k-h