Re: Linux 3.9.1

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 08:22:45AM +0100, Athanasius wrote:
> On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 09:10:10PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > I'm announcing the release of the 3.9.1 kernel.
> > 
> > All users of the 3.9 kernel series must upgrade.
> > 
> > The updated 3.9.y git tree can be found at:
> > 	git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git linux-3.9.y
> 
>   Usually I can:
> 
> 	git pull git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git master

If you do that, you only get the master branch updated locally.  Which
tracks Linus's tree, not the different stable releases.

> which means not having to update scripts/commandline history on each
> major verison change, but this time I did indeed need to:
> 
> 	git pull git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git linux-3.9.y
> 
> is this an intended change, or did you do something like forgetting to
> merge into master on linux-stable ?

No, I have not changed anything on my end, perhaps you never really were
updating the different stable branches?

thanks,

greg k-h