Re: [ath9k-devel] [ 00/78] 3.3.2-stable review

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 11:11:05PM +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 7:27 PM, Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > Just one minor correction in this looney email thread:
> >
> > On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 01:53:22AM +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> >> v3.3.x on the other hand are *not* stable. They contain patches
> >> backported from v3.4, but nobody guarantees they will work. There was
> >> no v3.3.1-rc1, so the first time the patches compromising v3.3.1 were
> >> generally tested together is in v3.3.1, at which point if somebody
> >> finds issues, it's too late; bad patches are *not* going to be removed
> >> in v3.3.2.
> >
> > Of course there was a 3.3.1-rc1, see the linux-kernel archives for the
> > announcemen and the individual patches.  kernel.org has the large patch
> > itself if you like that format instead.
> 
> I don't see it here:
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git;a=tags
> 
> If you really want people to try it, why not tag it?

That would be because I don't keep it in that tree.  It is in a quilt
tree you can find in the stable-queue.git repo, and I have never tagged
-rc1 releases there.  No one has ever asked for it before, so in the
past 6 years of stable releases, I guess no one ever needed it.

ketchup and tarballs seem to work well for others, perhaps you can use
that as well (hint, ketchup on top of the linux-stable tree works just
fine for testing this.)

greg k-h