From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751843AbbKIV1E (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Nov 2015 16:27:04 -0500 Received: from wtarreau.pck.nerim.net ([62.212.114.60]:59950 "EHLO 1wt.eu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751051AbbKIV1B (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Nov 2015 16:27:01 -0500 Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2015 22:26:55 +0100 From: Willy Tarreau To: Sasha Levin Cc: stable , LKML , Greg Kroah-Hartman Subject: Re: Stable maintainer tools Message-ID: <20151109212655.GL26584@1wt.eu> References: <5640BC1D.9030507@oracle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5640BC1D.9030507@oracle.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Sasha, On Mon, Nov 09, 2015 at 10:30:37AM -0500, Sasha Levin wrote: > Hi all, > > As I've started working on maintaining stable kernels I found that it's nearly > impossible to assure the correctness of the resulting kernel without a fair > amount of tools to help with the job. > > Every missing commit means that there's an unfix bug, which may be critical. > Likewise, every commit that wasn't intended to that kernel version, or is > incorrectly backported means we might be introducing new bugs - some might > be non obvious to detect. > > There is also very little coordination and cooperation between maintainers when > there should be much more. It's important to audit your tree against other > maintainers and both fix your tree if necessary and report mistakes to other > maintainers. > > Therefore, to try and create a common toolset for stable tree maintainers > I've cleaned up and published my scripts, and below I'll describe some of > my workflows with them. The scripts are built around git, and I'd be happy > to take in a quilt version in as well if someone wants to donate his scripts. > > The code is available at > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sashal/stable-tools.git . Ideas, > suggestions, bug reports and patches are more than welcome! (...) I'll take a look at your work next time I work on a series, this looks interesting and indeed covers some of the painful cases I'm sometimes running though. Thanks for publishing this and explaining how to use it. Willy