From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756307AbaIEH4I (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Sep 2014 03:56:08 -0400 Received: from szxga03-in.huawei.com ([119.145.14.66]:39573 "EHLO szxga03-in.huawei.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756254AbaIEH4G (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Sep 2014 03:56:06 -0400 Message-ID: <54096C8D.8000008@huawei.com> Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2014 15:55:57 +0800 From: Li Zefan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130801 Thunderbird/17.0.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Guenter Roeck CC: , Subject: Re: [kernel.org PATCH] Li Zefan is now the 3.4 stable maintainer References: <20140826230858.GA29970@kroah.com> <20140827045938.GA28282@roeck-us.net> <540813A5.7020704@huawei.com> <20140904183953.GA28599@roeck-us.net> In-Reply-To: <20140904183953.GA28599@roeck-us.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: [10.177.18.230] X-CFilter-Loop: Reflected X-Mirapoint-Virus-RAPID-Raw: score=unknown(0), refid=str=0001.0A020201.54096C93.0173,ss=1,re=0.000,fgs=0, ip=0.0.0.0, so=2013-05-26 15:14:31, dmn=2011-05-27 18:58:46 X-Mirapoint-Loop-Id: 0ca596a5fc86cfff7becc740545ba4ff Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >>> Li, >>> >>> it would be great if you can send me information about your -stable queue, >>> ie how you maintain it and where it is located. This will enable me to >>> continue testing the stable queue for the 3.4 kernel. >>> >> >> Thanks for testing LTS kernels! >> >> This is my 3.4.y git tree: >> >> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/lizf/linux-3.4.y.git/ >> >> And this is the patch queue: >> >> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/lizf/linux-3.4.y-queue.git/ >> >> I use quilt. When I've added some patches to 3.4.y, I'll update this >> queue. The patches and series file are under /patches. Currently there's >> already a patch in the queue. >> >> When I release a new version, I'll clean up the queue by removing all >> the files under /patches. >> >> Hope this is all the information you need. Please tell me if you need >> me to slightly adjust my workflow so it's easier for you. > > It almost works. > > Problem is that the pending patch got converted to use instead of > just as common in Linux. When I try to apply it with "git quiltimport", > it bails out with "trailing whitespace" errors. "git am" with the individual > patch works fine for some reason, though. > > I can try to find a workaround, but it would be better to have the file in > linux file format to start with. Would that be possible ? > Yeah, I've fixed it. I'll run dos2unix for every patch file.