Re: [PATCH 3.18 00/84] 3.18.2-stable review

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, Jan 07, 2015 at 10:06:25AM +0100, Sedat Dilek wrote:
> [ From the original posting in [1] ]
> Hi Greg,
> 
> just testing Linux v3.18.2-rc1.
> 
> I am here in my local Git tree and applying not the big tarball but
> from the stable-queu.git tree.
> 
> $ cd linux-git
> 
> $ for i in $( cat ../stable-queue-git/queue-3.18/series ) ; do echo [
> $i ] ;  git am ../stable-queue-git/queue-3.18/${i} ; done
> 
> Unfortunately, there is missing a patch to bump the version in the Makefile.
> 
> Is there something speaking against to put your changes to Makefile as
> a patch into queue-3.18?

I have never done that in the 8+ years of stable kernels, so it would be
a change in my workflow, sorry.

> >From your original posting in [1]
> ...
> -------------
> Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:
> 
> Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
>     Linux 3.18.2-rc1
> 
> Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
> ...
> 
> For me this means to do an extra commit, add tags etc.

Yes, and my scripts do it for me, when creating a -rc release, see the
scripts/quilt-mail script in the stable-queue.git tree if you are
curious as to how it is done.

thanks,

greg k-h