From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755871AbbAGXru (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Jan 2015 18:47:50 -0500 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:34251 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752350AbbAGXrs (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Jan 2015 18:47:48 -0500 Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 15:47:48 -0800 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Sedat Dilek Cc: LKML , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [PATCH 3.18 00/84] 3.18.2-stable review Message-ID: <20150107234748.GC19926@kroah.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.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 > Linux 3.18.2-rc1 > > Filipe Manana > ... > > 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