From: Pierre-Louis Bossart <pierre-louis.bossart@linux.intel.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>, backports@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: newbie questions
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 08:21:13 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55E454C9.5070302@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1441025664.13980.8.camel@sipsolutions.net>
>> humm... What I wanted is backport next-20150731 to v4.1.6. linux-next
>> is checked out to next-20150731.
>> which of the two does git-revision refer two? the linux-next origin
>> or the destination?
>
> The *to* version is never relevant. A given backport will compile
> against many different *to* versions.
I guess I completely missed the concept. I was thinking that the gentree.py command would only port and adjust the delta between linux-next and the version I wanted. Looks like the backport is really an add-on that will apply to multiple versions. Not sure I understand how successive changes in the tree are handled if there is a single backport.
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Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-08-31 0:30 newbie questions Pierre-Louis Bossart
2015-08-31 7:43 ` Johannes Berg
2015-08-31 12:50 ` Pierre-Louis Bossart
2015-08-31 12:54 ` Johannes Berg
2015-08-31 13:21 ` Pierre-Louis Bossart [this message]
2015-08-31 13:33 ` Johannes Berg
2015-08-31 14:26 ` Pierre-Louis Bossart
2015-08-31 14:38 ` Johannes Berg
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2021-06-18 16:31 Newbie questions Ethy H. Brito
2021-06-18 17:40 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2021-06-18 20:37 ` Ethy H. Brito
2021-06-22 1:28 ` Ethy H. Brito
2021-06-22 9:18 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2012-10-06 15:31 Mark Kampe
2012-10-07 0:08 ` Adam Nielsen
2012-10-07 0:34 ` Mark Kampe
2012-10-01 12:30 Adam Nielsen
2012-10-01 13:20 ` Joao Eduardo Luis
2012-10-01 16:13 ` Sage Weil
2012-10-06 15:05 ` Adam Nielsen
2005-11-01 17:33 Larry Alkoff
2005-11-02 5:41 ` Justin Zygmont
2005-11-03 0:55 ` Ralph Alvy
2005-11-03 4:12 ` Larry Alkoff
2005-11-03 6:17 ` Ralph Alvy
2005-11-03 7:32 ` John R. Sowden
2005-11-03 19:02 ` Larry Alkoff
2005-11-03 21:26 ` John R. Sowden
2005-11-04 3:45 ` Justin Zygmont
2005-11-05 17:06 ` Ralph Alvy
2005-11-05 19:25 ` Larry Alkoff
2005-11-06 0:42 ` Ralph Alvy
[not found] ` <436F5554.2030304@pobox.com>
[not found] ` <200511070723.31259.ralvy@warpmail.net>
2005-11-07 16:36 ` Alain
2005-11-09 7:46 ` Ralph Alvy
2005-10-06 18:17 Gaurav Poothia
2005-10-06 21:04 ` Ivan Gyurdiev
2005-10-06 22:05 ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2005-10-06 18:12 Gaurav Poothia
2005-01-19 15:07 Scott Miller
2005-01-19 15:10 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2005-01-19 20:53 ` Scott Miller
2004-12-15 19:49 Newbie Questions Joseph Swaminathan
2004-12-15 20:23 ` Marco Gerards
2004-12-15 20:51 ` Joseph Swaminathan
2004-12-15 20:56 ` Marco Gerards
2004-03-25 21:32 Newbie questions Jan Rychter
2004-03-26 2:26 ` Steven Hand
2004-04-07 21:08 ` Jan Rychter
2004-03-26 2:35 ` Ian Pratt
2002-08-03 4:10 Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri
[not found] ` <20020803041040.10310.qmail-L8+/D2FWflyA/QwVtaZbd3CJp6faPEW9@public.gmane.org>
2002-08-03 12:49 ` Axel Siebenwirth
[not found] <200204070157.g371vDs24544@superglide.netfx-2000.net>
2002-04-25 8:10 ` Newbie Questions Daniel
2002-04-09 21:39 Gyzmobro
2002-04-09 22:14 ` Glynn Clements
2001-12-11 23:44 Slightly confuzed Charles Steinkuehler
2001-12-12 14:59 ` Newbie questions Charles Steinkuehler
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