Re: Linux 3.9.1

[Athanasius <link@miggy.org>]

On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 10:50:20AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> 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?

  'uname -r' says I was.  Also 'git log' for my v3.8 branch currently on
3.8.9 via the 'master' method does include at least the top few commits
listed on:

<https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/log/?id=refs/tags/v3.8.9>

Of course only having gotten to 3.8.9 a pull against linux-3.8.y does
see changes.  Perhaps someone else, or a script on git.kernel.org was
merging into master before and now isn't ?

  Anyway, if it's unsupported to pull from linux-stable.git master I'll
change my scripts.

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