Re: [RFC] new -stable tag variant, Git workflow question

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> wrote:

> > I've attached the full commit below. The prereq commits are not 
> > uptream yet, and they dont carry a -stable backporting tag as the 
> > -stable relevance was not anticipated at that point yet. They will 
> > all be upstream in the next merge window when Linus merges the 
> > relevant tree - and then all these tags become visible to the 
> > -stable team's scripts.
> > 
> > What do you think about this new -stable tagging variant? To me it 
> > looks quite intuitive, less error-prone and it is more informative 
> > as well. Furthermore, it gives us some freedom to mark commits as 
> > backport candidates later on. I kept them oneliners for the purpose 
> > of making them all self-sufficient tags.
> 
> I agree.

Ok - thanks for the confirmation - i've pushed out the first such 
commit. (Let me know if there's any problem with it down the line - it 
will be a few weeks, in the next merge window, until it truly 
'activates' for -stable.)

	Ingo