From: Mariusz Kozlowski <mk@lab.zgora.pl>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Mariusz Kozlowski <mk@lab.zgora.pl>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org,
torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Subject: Re: [ 00/27] 3.7.1-stable review
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 23:38:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121217223844.GA3428@mako-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121217221406.GA20720@kroah.com>
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 02:14:06PM -0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 11:07:38PM +0100, Mariusz Kozlowski wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 03:01:13PM -0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.7.1 release.
> > > There are 27 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response
> > > to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
> > > let me know.
> > >
> > > Responses should be made by Sun Dec 16 22:16:56 UTC 2012.
> > > Anything received after that time might be too late.
> > >
> > > The whole patch series can be found in one patch at:
> > > kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/stable-review/patch-3.7.1-rc1.gz
> > > and the diffstat can be found below.
> >
> > Greg, would that be a problem to send these patches for review to
> > linux-3.7.y branch and mark them with v3.7.1-rc1 commit/tag?
>
> Yes, it is a problem, sorry.
>
> > Is something goes wrong there is still place to fix/revert as needed.
> > If not do the final commit/tag that says this is v3.7.1 [1].
> >
> > It would be easier to automate things by just monitoring linux-stable
> > remote for new tags.
>
> Automate what?
Automate builing stable -rc kernels so that the builds trigger
themselves when needed and all I have to do is install the kernel and
boot it - I do that on real hardware so this part is done manually so
far (for various reasons).
>You can just look for the patch files to show up on
> kernel.org if you wish to automate testing.
That's already done. Ugly but it works.
> Otherwise, sorry, but creating a git tree of these patches, for the -rc
> kernels, doesn't work with the current work flow. I have to have the
> ability to remove and add patches and change patches in the middle of
> the series of patches before the final kernel release for a variety of
> reasons, all of which have come up over the years of doing these stable
> kernel releases.
>
> In other words, I don't ever want to rebase.
Ok. Thanks for explanation.
BTW. Nothing breaks for me so far so nothing to report.
--
Mariusz Kozlowski
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-17 22:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-14 23:01 [ 00/27] 3.7.1-stable review Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-12-14 23:01 ` [ 01/27] mm: dmapool: use provided gfp flags for all dma_alloc_coherent() calls Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-12-14 23:01 ` [ 02/27] clk: ux500: fix bit error Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-12-14 23:01 ` [ 03/27] x86,AMD: Power driver support for AMDs family 16h processors Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-12-14 23:01 ` [ 04/27] telephony: ijx: buffer overflow in ixj_write_cid() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-12-14 23:01 ` [ 05/27] ezusb: add dependency to USB Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-12-14 23:01 ` [ 06/27] x86: hpet: Fix masking of MSI interrupts Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-12-14 23:01 ` [ 07/27] USB: add new zte 3g-dongles pid to option.c Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-12-14 23:01 ` [ 08/27] USB: option: blacklist network interface on Huawei E173 Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-12-14 23:01 ` [ 09/27] USB: ftdi_sio: Add support for Newport AGILIS motor drivers Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-12-14 23:01 ` [ 10/27] usb: ftdi_sio: fixup BeagleBone A5+ quirk Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-12-14 23:01 ` [ 11/27] USB: cp210x: add Virtenio Preon32 device id Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-12-14 23:01 ` [ 12/27] USB: mark uas driver as BROKEN Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-12-14 23:01 ` [ 13/27] ACPI / battery: Correct battery capacity values on Thinkpads Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-12-14 23:01 ` [ 14/27] ACPI / PM: Add Sony Vaio VPCEB1S1E to nonvs blacklist Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-12-14 23:01 ` [ 15/27] ACPI / PNP: Do not crash due to stale pointer use during system resume Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-12-14 23:01 ` [ 16/27] ACPI / video: ignore BIOS initial backlight value for HP Folio 13-2000 Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-12-14 23:01 ` [ 17/27] ACPI / video: Add "Asus UL30VT" to ACPI video detect blacklist Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-12-14 23:01 ` [ 18/27] USB: OHCI: workaround for hardware bug: retired TDs not added to the Done Queue Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-12-14 23:01 ` [ 19/27] xhci: Extend Fresco Logic MSI quirk Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-12-14 23:01 ` [ 20/27] ftrace: Clear bits properly in reset_iter_read() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-12-14 23:01 ` [ 21/27] ring-buffer: Fix NULL pointer if rb_set_head_page() fails Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-12-14 23:01 ` [ 22/27] ring-buffer: Fix race between integrity check and readers Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-12-14 23:01 ` [ 23/27] cdc-acm: implement TIOCSSERIAL to avoid blocking close(2) Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-12-14 23:01 ` [ 24/27] perf test: fix a build error on builtin-test Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-12-14 23:01 ` [ 25/27] USB: EHCI: bugfix: urb->hcpriv should not be NULL Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-12-14 23:01 ` [ 26/27] rcu: Fix batch-limit size problem Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-12-14 23:01 ` [ 27/27] Staging: bcm: Add two products and remove an existing product Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-12-15 14:22 ` [ 00/27] 3.7.1-stable review Shuah Khan
2012-12-15 20:47 ` Shuah Khan
2012-12-15 14:53 ` Satoru Takeuchi
2012-12-16 19:52 ` Nikola Ciprich
2012-12-17 22:07 ` Mariusz Kozlowski
2012-12-17 22:14 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-12-17 22:38 ` Mariusz Kozlowski [this message]
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