Re: [PATCH rdma-core 5/5] Documentation: update stable doc about ABI reference generation

[Leon Romanovsky <leon-DgEjT+Ai2ygdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>]

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On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 07:58:12PM +0100, Nicolas Morey-Chaisemartin wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Morey-Chaisemartin <NMoreyChaisemartin-IBi9RG/b67k@public.gmane.org>
> ---
>  Documentation/stable.md | 17 +++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/stable.md b/Documentation/stable.md
> index d7ea9822..b7d26c98 100644
> --- a/Documentation/stable.md
> +++ b/Documentation/stable.md
> @@ -63,3 +63,20 @@ Note that for Option 3, if the patch deviates from the original upstream patch (
>  ## Versioning
>
>  See versioning.md for setting package version on a stable branch.
> +
> +
> +## Creating a stable branch
> +
> +Stable branch should be created from a release tag of the master branch.
> +The first thing to do on a master branch is to commit the mainstream release ABI infos
> +so that latters patches/fixes can be checked against this reference.

Does it mean that you should rebase your stable-v15 branch?
It doesn't contain ABI infos yet.

> +
> +To do that, the creator of the branch should run
> +```
> +./buildlib/gen-abi
> +mv build-abi/ABI buildlib/ABI
> +git add buildlib/ABI
> +git commit
> +```
> +
> +Note that the ABI must NOT be commited at any point in the master branch.
> --
> 2.15.0.168.g9a51f1b30.dirty
>
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